The name “Luristan standards” refers to a very large group of bronze objects (with obvious symbolic, i.e. cultic character) dating from the Late Bronze and Iron Ages. They were found in the area of Luristan in the western part of today’s Iran, from where in the last century they would reach almost all the major world museums and private collections. Although the monograph focuses on the iconography, semiotics and purpose of these objects, it also presents their typology, production and archaeological contexts in which they were discovered.

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