In the Brooklyn Museum collection [inv. no. 37.353] there is an Egyptian statue of Ptahhotep, an overseer of the Treasury. A man is shown in a Persian costume, wearing a Persian torc over the Egyptian necklace with the amulet-pendant. The statue is dated to the 1st Persian Period, 521-486 BCE.
From the museum description: “The rendering of the two ibexes that terminate the torque, however, is typically Egyptian, with the heads shown from the side.”
“The torque, with its caprid protomes, is more explicitly Achaemenid in form” according to Henry Colburn.
“The ibex has a long history of representation in ancient Iranian art, and it was a frequent motif on Achaemenid torques and bracelets, as attested on the Apadana reliefs at Persepolis and in extant metal examples The torque depicted on Ptahhotep’s statue is clearly intended to be Achaemenid, and it may in fact be a reference to a royal gift from the Great King himself. The naophorous statue of Udjahorresnet, an older contemporary of Ptahhotep who served both Cambyses and Darius in various capacities, features a lion-headed bracelet of distinctly Achaemenid type, and the biographical inscription states that he received “ornaments of gold” from the king. Whether or not Ptahhotep had in fact received the torque he is shown wearing as a similar mark of esteem from Darius, the adornment suggests this and creates a link with the Achaemenid rulers of Egypt.”
In dedicatory texts from Susa, Darius I boasted of assembling an international crew of skilled artisans to construct his palaces
Part of Torque (Grivna) with Rams
Sakae Culture, Siberia. 4th-3rd century BCE
Gold, l. 26 cm
The Hermitage Museum, inv. no. Си.1727-1/236
https://www.hermitagemuseum.org
Statue of Darius I the Great was carved in Egypt but later erected near the east gate of the great Achaemenid king’s palace in Susa. https://oxfordre.com
Achaemenid bracelets, two pairs, with winged ibex promotes from the Miho Museum collection
https://www.miho.jp/booth/html/artcon/00000473.htm
https://www.miho.jp/booth/html/artcon/00000996.htm
New Excavations of the Early Nomadic Burial Ground at Filippovka (Southern Ural Region, Russia); Leonid Teodorovich Yablonsky https://www.ajaonline.org/field-report/317
Art of the Achaemenid Empire, and Art in the Achaemenid Empire, Henry Colburn https://www.academia.edu/1762191/Art_of_the_Achaemenid_Empire_and_Art_in_the_Achaemenid_Empire
M. Treister Der Schmuck der Achämeniden https://www.academia.edu/resource/work/38512479
New Excavations of the Early Nomadic Burial Ground at Filippovka (Southern Ural Region, Russia); Leonid Teodorovich Yablonsky https://www.ajaonline.org/field-report/317
https://www.academia.edu/resource/work/15965910
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palace_of_Darius_in_Susa