corbel
- Museum number
- 92095
- Description
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Baked clay miniature corbel: or hand of Ishtar. The fingers of the fist, which would have been visible from below, are covered with blue glaze; a paler undercoat is visible at the sides, and trickles down the back.
- Production date
- 900BC-700BC (probably)
- Dimensions
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Length: 21 centimetres
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Thickness: 6 centimetres
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Width: 9.50 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- Bibliography:
A. H. Layard, 'The Monuments of Nineveh' (London, 1849), 18, pl. 84, nos. 14, 16;
G. Frame, Assyrian Clay Hands, ‘Baghdader Mitteilungen’ 22 (1991), 350, no. 44.
- Location
- Not on display
- 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'
- Acquisition date
- 1848
- Department
- Middle East
- BM/Big number
- 92095
- Registration number
- 1848,1104.176