figurine

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Object Type
Museum number: 30005
Description: Fired clay dog figurine: originally covered with black pigment and inscribed on the left side in cuneiform.
Cultures/periods
Production date: 645BC (about)
Excavator/field collector
Findspot: Excavated/Findspot: North Palace (Nineveh), Room S Door d
Materials
Technique
Dimensions: Height: 5.60 centimetres; Length: 7.30 centimetres; Width: 2.80 centimetres
$Inscriptions
Bibliographic references: Barnett 1976 / Sculptures from the North Palace of Ashurbanipal at Nineveh (668-627 B.C) (p.36, pl.I); Curtis & Reade 1994a / Tesoros de asiria en el Museo Britanico: Arte e Imperio (77); Curtis & Reade 1995a / Art and empire: treasures from Assyria in the British Museum (77); Gadd 1922 / Forms and Colours (p.159); Meissner 1922 (cols. 201-202); Guide 1922 / Guide to the Babylonian and Assyrian Antiquities in the British Museum (pp.221, 239); Meissner & Opitz 1940 / Studien zum Bît Hilâni in Nordpalast Assurbanaplis zu Ninive (p.47, no.4 (1922)); Ebert 1924 / Reallexikon der Vorgeschichte (15 vols.) (p.205) (article by Erich Eberling); Bottéro 1956 / Deux curiosités assyriologiques (avec une note de Pierre Hamelin) (pp.22ff); British Museum 2011a / Splendours of Mesopotamia (p.142, cat.118)
Location: On display (G55/dc9)
Exhibition history: Exhibited: 2011 28 March-26 June, Abu Dhabi, Manarat Al Saadiyat, 'Splendours of Mesopotamia' 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' 1991 8 Jan-24 Mar, Birmingham Museum and City Art Gallery, Man’s Best Friend
Subjects: mammal; dog
Acquisition date: 1856
Department: Middle East
BM/Big number: 30005
Registration number: 1856,0903.1509
Additional IDs: Miscellaneous number: K.A.19 (exhibition number (yellow label))
Conservation

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