frieze
- Museum number
- 1877,1218.5
- Description
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Decorative openwork copper alloy frieze. The band depicts bull half kneeling on either side of a sun-disc and hill motif. It may have been displayed on a wall against a coloured background, and a piece of blue glass inlay survives. Above there is a fragmentary inscription in Urartian cuneiform.
- Production date
- 8thC BC(late)
- Dimensions
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Length: 8.89 centimetres
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Width: 6.35 centimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- Attached to 1877,1218.6 and 1877,1218.16 (also BM.91209)
Part of 1880,1216.6 (also BM.91209).
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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Exhibited:
1991 28 May-7 Oct, Israel, Jerusalem, The Israel Museum, 'Urartu, A metal working centre in the first millennium BC'
- Acquisition date
- 1877
- Department
- Middle East
- Registration number
- 1877,1218.5
- Joined objects
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Joined Object Group: G10326 (4 objects)
