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Object Type
Museum number: 130738
Title: Object: The Statue of Idrimi
Description: Statue of Idrimi, king of Alalakh; carved magnesite with glass eyes set into the eye-sockets; glass heavily weathered; inscription.
Production date: 15th Century BC
Excavator/field collector
Findspot: Excavated/Findspot: Tell Atchana
Materials: magnesite; glass (eyes)
Technique: carved; inlaid (eyes)
Dimensions: Diameter: 59.69 centimetres; Height: 63.50 centimetres (throne); Height: 104.14 centimetres; Width: 48.26 centimetres
$Inscriptions
Curator's comments: Part of 1939,0613.102 (BM.130739).
Bibliographic references: ILN 1939a / Hidden in perilous times: the broken statue of a Hittite king (p. 869, figs 9-12) (includes in situ views); Maloigne 2017 / How Idrimi came to London: Diplomacy and the division of archaeological finds in the 1930s
Location: On display (G57)
Exhibition history: Exhibited: Room 57: Ancient Syria [Syrian Room], Easter 1982-.
Subjects
Associated names: Representation of: Idrimi; Associated with: Sharruwa
Acquisition date: 1939
Department: Middle East
BM/Big number: 130738
Registration number: 1939,0613.101
Conservation: Treatment: 11 Nov 1993; Treatment: 06 Sep 1991; Treatment: 23 Oct 2009; Treatment: 16 Jul 1998; Treatment

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