acroterion (?) | British Museum

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acroterion(?)

Object Type
Museum number: 92221
Description: Element from a crown moulding, possibly an acroterion, with flat back; face decorated with a two paired ridges with upturned inner scrolls, from a heart-shaped element above, now broken, with one outer upturned scroll at the top right and the remnant of a second at the top left; moulded gypsum plaster.
Cultures/periods
Production date: 1stC(late)-2ndC(early)
Excavator/field collector
Findspot: Excavated/Findspot: Warka, Parthian House, room 14
Materials
Technique
Dimensions: Height: 22.20 centimetres; Height: 9 inches; Length: 8.75 inches; Thickness: 4.30 centimetres; Width: 19.20 centimetres
Curator's comments: Registered as "Sassanian" in the 19th century as the building where it was found was initially believed to be of the Sasanian period; the building is actually Parthian in date.
Bibliographic references: Thompson D 1979a / Parthian stucco from Warka in the British Museum (cat.6, pp.297-98, fig.6 (right)) (cites incorrect reg. number); Kose A 1998a / Uruk Architektur, IV. Von der Seleukiden - bis zur Sasanidenzeit (RD 299, p.364, pl.132,3a-b)
Location: Not on display
Exhibition history: Exhibited: 1995-2005 17 Nov-5 Dec, BM, G52/IRAN/12/1 1994 16 Jun-23 Dec, G49/IRAN 1975-1990 Jul-end, BM, Iranian Room [IR] case ?, no. 8
Acquisition date: 1851
Department: Middle East
BM/Big number: 92221
Registration number: 1851,0101.317
Conservation