pendant
- Museum number
- 130761
- Description
-
Gold plaque (pendant) representing the Canaanite goddess 'Astarte' (repoussé).
- Production date
- 16thC BC
- Dimensions
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Length: 3.50 centimetres
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Width: 2.06 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- The object was sent for moulding by Mr D. Giles between 18 November and13 DEcember 1977 (WAA, 'Objects to Lab' book).
- Location
- On display (G57/dc7)
- Exhibition history
-
Exhibited:
2008 18 Nov-2009 15 Mar, New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 'Beyond Babylon: Art, Trade, and Diplomacy in the Second Millennium B.C.'
1994 7 Sep-26 Oct, Austria, Vienna, Museen der Stadt Wien, Pharanen und Fremde
- Acquisition date
- 1949
- Department
- Middle East
- BM/Big number
- 130761
- Registration number
- 1949,0212.2
