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Object Type
Museum number: 114308
Title: Object: The Imdugud Relief
Description: Copper alloy relief on bitumen of lion-headed eagle Imdugud gripping the haunches of two stags; also three fragments of lead thought to have been used to fix antlers of stags head.
Cultures/periods
Production date: 2500BC
Excavator/field collector
Findspot: Excavated/Findspot: Tell Al-'Ubaid, Base of the temple- tower of the goddess Ninhursag at Tell al-‘Ubaid.
Materials: copper alloy; bitumen; lead
Dimensions: Height: 106.68 centimetres; Length: 259.08 centimetres
Bibliographic references: Budge 1922a / A guide to the Babylonian and Assyrian antiquities. (p.57); Hall & Woolley 1927a / Al-'Ubaid. A report on the work carried out at al-'Ubaid for the British Museum in 1919 and for the joint expedition in 1923-4 (pp.28-29, 85, pl.VI); Anon 1927a / The nation's new Sumerian treasure (first publication after display); Frankfort H 1954a / The art and architecture of the Ancient Orient (30, pl.27a); Barnett & Wiseman 1960a / Fifty masterpieces of Ancient Near Eastern Art (pp.14-15, no. 4); Woolley 1961a / Mesopotamien und Vorderasien (p.51); Strommenger E & Hirmer M 1962a / Funf Jahrtausende Mesopotamien (pl.79); Margueron J-C 1965a / Mesopotamia (pl.54); Mitchell T C 1969a / Sumerian art, illustrated by objects from Ur and Al-'Ubaid (pl.XX); Spycket A 1981a / La statuaire du Proche-Orient Ancien (p.138); Braun-Holzinger E A 1984a / Figürliche Bronzen aus Mesoptamien (77, pl.16); Roaf M 1990a / Cultural atlas of Mesopotamia and the Ancient Near East (p.86)
Location: On display (G56/od)
Subjects: bird; mammal
Associated names
Acquisition date: 1919
Department: Middle East
BM/Big number: 114308
Registration number: 1919,1011.4874
Conservation: Treatment: 06 Jul 1998; Treatment

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