An Achaemenid Gold Repoussé Plaque, Achaemenid Period, ca. 500 - 330 BCE Medium - Faience consistent with long burial

consistent with long burial

prior to the departure of the Shah in 1979

(catalogue #151

Of exceptional quality

extends from the left

An Achaemenid Gold Repoussé Plaque, Achaemenid Period, ca. 500 - 330 BCE Medium - Faience consistent with long burialThis sheet gold plaque attests to the exceptional skill of Achaemenid goldsmiths and the sophisticated taste and high social status of its original owners. Greek writers often speak of the tremendous wealth of the Persians, and Herodotus writes that King Xerxes' troops "were adorned with the greatest magnificence they glittered all over with gold, vast quantities of which they wore about their person" (vii. 83). Of high karat gold, this example is