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Object Type
Museum number: 91147
Description: Bronze figure of a bearded standing god wearing a pointed, horned head-dress, with hand and fist extended.
Cultures/periods
Production date: 8thC BC-7thC BC
Findspot: Excavated/Findspot: Toprakkale
Materials
Dimensions: Height: 21 centimetres; Width: 4.80 centimetres; Depth: 5 centimetres
Bibliographic references: Boardman J 1984a / The Cambridge Ancient History, Plate to Volume III (pl.93); van Loon M N 1966a / Urartian art: its distinctive traits in the light of new excavations (pl.10); Barnett 1950a / The Excavations of the British Museum at Toprak Kale near Van (pl.XVIII.2, pp.2(&39?)); Spycket A 1981a / La statuaire du Proche-Orient Ancien (p.382, pl.245); Budge 1922a / A guide to the Babylonian and Assyrian antiquities. (p.171 & ill); Vanden Berghe & De Meyer 1982a / Urartu: een vergeten cultuur uit het bergland Armenië (no.185, p.213)
Location: On display (G54/dc6/sA)
Exhibition history: Exhibited: 2014 22 Sep - 2015 5 Jan, New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 'Assyria to Iberia at the Dawn of the Classical Age' 1996 22 Mar-15 Sep, France, Nantes, Musée Dobrée, Armènie, des origins au IVeme siècle après J-C 1991 28 May-7 Oct, Israel, Jerusalem, The Israel Museum, 'Urartu, A metal working centre in the first millennium BC' 1982 8 Oct-1983 30 Jan, Belgium, Ghent, St Peter’s Abbey, Urartu: een vergeten cultuur uit het bergland Armenië Iranian Room, Wall-case 6/2 (according to WAA transfer book)
Subjects
Acquisition name
Acquisition date: 1874
Acquisition notes: On loan through Mr J.H.W. Axtell (WAA Transfer book entry dated 8 March 1954)
Department: Middle East
BM/Big number: 91147
Registration number: 1874,1003.1
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