relief
- Museum number
- 118842
- Description
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Stone relief; carved fragment; bearded groom wearing so-called Median dress and a plain annular earring, escorting a horse and processing to the right.
- Production date
- 6thC BC-5thC BC
- Dimensions
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Height: 45 centimetres
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Width: 25 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- The cast is listed as available in the British Museum Facsimile Service 'Catalogue of Replicas from British Museum collections' (n.d.), in the series "Persia".
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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Exhibited:
2010 29 May-15 Oct, USA, Kentucky Horse Park, 'A Gift from the Desert'
1996 1 Oct-1997 31 Mar, USA, St. Petersburg, Florida International Museum, Alexander the Great: History and Legend
1995 21 Dec-1996 21 May, Rome, Fondazione Memmo, Alexander the Great: History and Legend
1937/38 probably displayed in the first Iranian Room
1865-1937/38, probably displayed in the Assyrian Transept (west wall)
1831-1865 autumn-, BM, Grand Central Saloon, bottom shelf in recess on the left side of the gallery; described in the Synopsis (where itemised as number '89')
- Condition
- Incomplete.
- Acquisition date
- 1818
- Acquisition notes
- See Trustees Standing Commitee Minutes for the dates 8th March 1817 and 1818 (Officers' reports, volume 4, no.951 and volume 5, no.1100) and xerox of donor's letters from "Letters on Antiquities".
- Department
- Middle East
- BM/Big number
- 118842
- Registration number
- 1818,0509.1
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: 89 (exhibition number)
