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furniture-fitting
Object Type
furniture-fitting
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
Urartian
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
copper alloy
Technique
inlaid
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
mammal
Acquisition date
1880
Department
Middle East
BM/Big number
91253
Registration number
1880,1216.8
Conservation
Treatment
: 5 Apr 2018