Tripod

"A bimetallic stand uses iron rod construction (seen in Urartu) in combination with copper/bronze human leg supports and other ornamentation. This stand had been badly broken and deformed during the collapse of BB IV, where it was found high in the upper collapse of Room 6. The bimetallism of this stand harks back to stands from the "Room of the Bronzes" at Nimrud, later Urartian stands, and the use of bimetallism in other object classes at Hasanlu. However, neither the Nimrud nor Urartu stands use human leg supports. Further, the reduced scale and the Local Style repousse decoration on copper/bronze bands suspended between the legs from small hooks seem to place manufacture at a local/regional center. The motif of a person confronting a horned animal repeated on the two recovered bands (of the original three) suggests a ceremonial function for this stand.

The nude human leg uprights with shod feet had been cast over groups of three iron rods that rise to form a ring top stabilized by three copper/bronze clamps in the shape of pendant triangles with solid ball terminals. The human leg supports are very similar to those from a bimetallic stand reported by Hakemi and Rad to have come from a grave on the east side of the Low Mound; however, the Hakemi and Rad reconstruction drawing differs from the configuration of our stand."