furniture-fitting

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Object Type
Museum number: 91253
Description: Vertical copper alloy furniture fitting topped by a recumbent lion, originally inlaid and gilded; part of throne or bed; on a column of crossed tubes resembling logs, the ends inlaid with paste; traces of gilding.
Cultures/periods
Production date: 8thC BC
Excavator/field collector: Excavated by: Emilius Clayton; Excavated by: Dr G C Raynolds; Excavated by: Hormuzd Rassam
Findspot: Excavated/Findspot: Toprakkale
Materials
Technique
Dimensions: Height: 22 centimetres; Length: 28 centimetres
Bibliographic references: Azarpay G 1968a / Urartian art and artifacts: a chronological study. (pl.50); van Loon M N 1966a / Urartian art: its distinctive traits in the light of new excavations (pl.XI); Boardman J 1984a / The Cambridge Ancient History, Plate to Volume III (pl.98); Talbot Rice T 1964a / Ancient Arts of Central Asia (fig.49, pl.61); Vanden Berghe & De Meyer 1982a / Urartu: een vergeten cultuur uit het bergland Armenië (no.135, p.1832); Hughes et al 1981 / Analyses of some Urartian bronzes (no.1)
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 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
Acquisition date: 1880
Department: Middle East
BM/Big number: 91253
Registration number: 1880,1216.8
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