corbel
- Museum number
- 90976
- Description
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Miniature fired clay corbel in the form of a hand: this example is exceptionally well made, with the fingernails individually delineated; the shank is broken. The hand is inscribed in cuneiform. Its surfaces are largely blackened and the shank is broken.
- Production date
- 875BC-865BC
- Dimensions
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Length: 13 centimetres
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Thickness: 5.30 centimetres
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Width: 8.50 centimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Inscription subject
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royal
- Curator's comments
- Bibliography:
G. Frame, Assyrian Clay Hands, ‘Baghdader Mitteilungen’ 22 (1991), 364, no. 36.
- Location
- On display (G1/wp72/sh5)
- Exhibition history
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Exhibited:
2008-2009 21 Sept-4 Jan, Boston, MFA, 'Art and Empire'
2007 2 Apr-30 Sept, Alicante, MARQ Museum, 'Art and Empire'
2006 1 Jul-7 Oct, Shanghai Museum, 'Art and Empire'
Exhibition: "Art and Empire", Mexico City CHECK
2003- BM, Enlightenment gallery
- Condition
- Broken shank; surfaces largely blackened.
- Department
- Middle East
- BM/Big number
- 90976
- Registration number
- .90976
