Author: David Stronach
The Iranian World: Essays on Iranian Art and Archaeology Presented to Ezat O. Negahban, Edited by: Abbas Alizadeh, Yousef Majidzadeh, Sadegh Malek Shahmirzadi, Iran University Press, Tehran, 1999

Abstract:
The extent to which Achaemenid art drew on artistic motifs from earlier Iranian sources as opposed to models taken from elsewhere in the ancient Near East has long been a source of debate (see, foe example, Dalton 1905: xliii; Ackerman 1938; and Farkas 1980: 15 ff). In an article that addreseed this subject a little over ten years ago, howevet, Roger Moorey was able to demonstrate that the impact of designs deriving from Iran itself (or from Iran`s northern and eastern approaches) could indeed be detected in the Achaemenid craft repertory with particular reference to textiles, weapons, horse trappings and peronal ornaments (Moorey 1985: 21 ff). It is within the context of these particular categories that the present paper may serve to add to the already acknowledged corpus of Achaemenid objects that can be said to own at least something to the characteristics of a prior, indigenous form of personal ornament.

Bibliography:
Stronach, David, The Achaemenid Lobed Bracelet, The Iranian World: Essays on Iranian Art and Archaeology Presented to Ezat O. Negahban, Edited by: Abbas Alizadeh, Yousef Majidzadeh, Sadegh Malek Shahmirzadi, Iran University Press, Tehran, 1999, pp 178-193.