amulet
- Museum number
- 117759
- Description
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Lamashtu amulet with incomplete cuneiform inscription; representation of the demon Lamashtu standing on an ass suckling jackal and wild pig.
- Production date
- 800BC-550BC
- Dimensions
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Length: 5 inches
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Width: 2.50 inches
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- A photograph of the amulet was displayed among graphics in the Jewellery through 7000 Years exhibition (BM).
- Location
- On display (G55/dc9)
- Exhibition history
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2014 - 2015 22 Sep - 5 Jan, New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 'Assyria to Iberia at the Dawn of the Classical Age'
- Acquisition date
- 1925
- Acquisition notes
- Purchased by Woolley from Carchemish funds. Deposit book, 21? May 1925, gives "Syria" for 1925-7-15 collection but departmental report and minutes indicate that the objects from dig and have "recently come to light" with no mention of payment.
- Department
- Middle East
- BM/Big number
- 117759
- Registration number
- 1925,0715.1
