Openwork pin with a squatting female ca. 8th-7th century B.C. Iran This is a bronze pin with an openwork design on the head. The design features a stylized squatting woman controlling two horned animals. The womans face is obscured by corrosion, but it is clear that she has horns, marking her as a goddess. Two large curls to either side of her head may be hair or earrings. She also has pellet-shaped breasts. Her arms, which curl upward, each grasp the snout of a stylized horned animal. These animals has long, curved necks which join in the middle beneath the goddess, forming the groundline on which she squats. A strut connects the goddess to the bottom of the design, and two curved elements connect the animals heads to the goddess; it is not clear if these are decorative or structural, or both.This pin was excavated at Surkh Dum, a settlement site in Luristan in the Zagros Mountains of western Iran. It was part of a large hoard of objects buried beneath a doorjamb in a structure int