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figurine
Object Type
figurine
Museum number
91247
Description
Copper alloy figurine of a winged, human-headed bull, with palmette attachment.
Cultures/periods
Urartian
Production date
750BC-700BC
Findspot
Excavated/Findspot:
Toprakkale
Materials
copper alloy
Dimensions
Length:
17.78 centimetres
Width:
21.59 centimetres
Bibliographic references
Barnett 1950a / The Excavations of the British Museum at Toprak Kale near Van
(p. 6, pls VI-VII)
Budge 1922a / A guide to the Babylonian and Assyrian antiquities.
(p.173)
Boardman J 1984a / The Cambridge Ancient History, Plate to Volume III
(pl.96)
Frankfort H 1954a / The art and architecture of the Ancient Orient
(p.174a)
Bossert H T 1942a / Altanatolien: Kunst und Handwerk in Kleinasien
(p.309)
Roaf M 1990a / Cultural atlas of Mesopotamia and the Ancient Near East
(p.170)
Lloyd S 1967a / Early highland peoples of Anatolia
(fig.14)
Talbot Rice T 1964a / Ancient Arts of Central Asia
(p.61, fig.48)
Barnett & Wiseman 1960a / Fifty masterpieces of Ancient Near Eastern Art
(pp.42-43, no.19)
Vanden Berghe & De Meyer 1982a / Urartu: een vergeten cultuur uit het bergland Armenië
(no.137, p.184)
Hughes et al 1981 / Analyses of some Urartian bronzes
(no.3)
(cites incorrect big number)
Location
Not on display
Exhibition history
Exhibited: 2018-2019 8 Nov-24 Feb, London, BM, I am Ashurbanipal, king of the world, king of Assyria 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
Subjects
mythical figure/creature
plant
Acquisition name
Purchased from:
Sir Austen Henry Layard
Acquisition date
1877
Department
Middle East
BM/Big number
91247
Registration number
1877,1218.12