artefact;
handle(?)
- Museum number
- 94347
- Description
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Copper alloy artefact, possibly a handle; in the form of a leaping ibex; cast; legs extended almost horizontally in front and behind its body; a connecting piece runs between the ends of each pair of legs.
- Production date
- 6thC BC-4thC BC (?)
- Dimensions
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Height: 12.07 centimetres
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Length: 21.91 centimetres
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Width: 6.99 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- The reported provenance of Van should be treated with great caution and may simply reflect knowledge that this was the findspot of much Urartian material, the region from which the dealer came or the general direction of import of this object if it was found in Iran. For the pose of animal, see "Turk Arkeoloji Dergisi" XXIII (1976), figs. 2a-b, p.111.
Lab report 16th July 1930.
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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Exhibited:
Iranian Room, wall-case [WC] 15, no. 2, top shelf.
- Acquisition date
- 1901
- Department
- Middle East
- BM/Big number
- 94347
- Registration number
- 1901,0716.1