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relief
Object Type
relief
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
Early Dynastic III
Production date
2500BC
Excavator/field collector
Excavated by:
Dr Harry Reginald Holland Hall
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
Representation of:
Im-Dugud
Acquisition date
1919
Department
Middle East
BM/Big number
114308
Registration number
1919,1011.4874
Conservation
Treatment
: 06 Jul 1998
Treatment