ABSTRACT
From the 14th century BC, the kingdom of Elam knew its apogee under the reigns of the sovereigns of the Igihalkid dynasty and Shutrukids. This period can be considered a golden age for the arts of fire in the Elamite world, both for the glass and faience industry, whose pigments were metal oxides, and for metalworking. At the end of the 8th century BC, archaeological and epigraphic sources attest to the rebirth of Susa and the brief renewal of the Elamite kingdom, before its destiny became definitively tied into the empire of Cyrus the Great. One of the Neo-Elamite vaulted tombs at Susa also delivered a pair of bronze handles originally belonging to a platter or basin. The metallic material of the Neo-Elamite period, even if it reveals no technical innovation, except for the use of iron, which would become widespread in the following centuries, testifies to the renewed vitality of an art that had developed immensely.
