statuette; stand

Please enable JavaScript in your web browser to get the best experience.

Object Type: statuette; stand
Museum number: 122200
Title: Object: The Ram in the Thicket
Description: Statuette of a goat perched against a bush looking for food; tree is of gold leaf; goat has face and legs of gold leaf; ears of copper-alloy; horns, eyes and shoulder fleece of lapis lazuli; body fleece of white shell; originally mounted on wooden core; pedestal with mosaic decoration in shell and red limestone; tube rising from shoulders indicates that it was used as a support.
Cultures/periods
Production date: 2600BC
Production place: Made in: Ur (historic - city) (?)
Excavator/field collector
Findspot: Excavated/Findspot: Royal Cemetery (Ur)
Materials: gold; lapis lazuli; shell (white); wood; silver; limestone (red)
Technique
Dimensions: Height: 45.70 centimetres; Length: 4.50 inches (base); Width: 2.50 inches (base); Width: 30.48 centimetres
Bibliographic references: Hall H R 1930a / The excavations at Ur: 1929-30 (pl. XIX) (frontispiece); Barnett & Wiseman 1960a / Fifty masterpieces of Ancient Near Eastern Art (pp.22-23, no. 8); Woolley et al 1934a / The Royal Cemetery (pp.121, 264, pls 87-88, 90)
Location: Not on display
Subjects: mammal; tree/bush
Acquisition name
Acquisition date: 1929
Department: Middle East
BM/Big number: 122200
Registration number: 1929,1017.1
Additional IDs: Excavation/small finds number: U.12357 (excavation number)
Conservation: Treatment: 30 Aug 2007; Treatment: 23 Jun 2023

Free entry