Plate with royal hunting scene , 5th century
Gilded silver

King Bahram V is challenged by his favourite musician to demonstrate hios prowess at archers by changing a male gazelle to a femaale (wich he does ny shooting off its horns) and a female to male (by shooting wto arrows into her head. The plate is dated by the reign of the King, bit is this correct?
Original diam 20.1cms
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA. 1994.402

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