9th-7th century B.C.prising two belt sections, each perforated around the edges for attachment: one with a repoussé display of alternating lions leaping towards warriors on horseback, leaping horned bulls and archers standing in horse-drawn war chariot; one fragment with articulate loop; the other folding over on itself, with repoussé display of helmetted warriors on horseback, alternating with warriors driving horse-drawn chariots; Urartian or Assyrian. Cf. Esayan, S.A., 'Gürtelbleche der Älteren Eisenzeit in Armenien' in Beiträge zur allgemeinen und vergleichenden Archäologie, vol.6, pp.97-198, pls. 8 & 25, nos.25 and 26 (belts from Golovino); Born H., Seidl U., Schutzwaffen aus Assyrien und Urartu, Sammlung Axel Guttmann IV, Mainz, 1995, nos.AG502, pp.83-84, figs.73-75, and pp.100-102, figs.89-93, pp.158ff., figs.124, 127-128; Christie’s,The Art of Warfare, the Axel Guttmann collection, Part I, Wednesday 6 November 2002, London, 2001, nos.13, pp.20-21, no.26, p.28; Gorelik, M.,Weapons of the Ancient East, IV millennium BC-IV century BC, Saint Petersburg (2003), pl.LXI, nn.88-89-90; Christie’s,The art of the warfare, the Axel Guttmann collection, Part II, Wednesday 28 April 2004, London, 2004, nos.47, pp.40-41; cf. also the Metropolitan Museum, New York, accession number 1976.5, for similar imagery on a copper-alloy plaque and accession number , for an Urartian belt of similar form and design.845 grams total, 30.5-35 cm (12 - 13 3/4 in.). Ex Axel Guttmann collection, with reference no.AG R 244.Apanied by an academic report by Dr Raffaele D’Amato.This lot has been checked against the Interpol Database of stolen works of art and is apanied by search certificate number no.11760-203204.[2, No Reserve]