Plate with youths and winged horses , 6th-7th century
Gilded Silver

Two youths stand on platforms facing one another, each holding a staff and the reins of a winged horse.Both horses bend their necks down to drink from a large vessel supported by a female figure. She is either a personification of water or the Iranian river goddess Anahita. In the background, a small cross-legged figure plays the lute.
Original diam 21cms
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA. 63.152

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