box-fitting(?)
- Museum number
- 132903
- Description
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Gold sheet fragment; originally rectangular in shape depicting a standing king grappling with a lion, holding a dagger in his right hand and grabbing the lion by the throat; 'provincial Assyrian' style; vertical row of circular holes along the left edge for attachment to a solid back, presumably wood; embossed row of circular blobs along the top as a decorative border; right side torn, leaving only two paws of the lion still present.
- Dimensions
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Length: 1.75 inches
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Width: 1.25 inches
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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Exhibited:
2018-2019 8 Nov-24 Feb, London, BM, I am Ashurbanipal, king of the world, king of Assyria
1995-2005 17 Nov-14 Dec, BM, G52/IRAN/14/10
1994 BM, G49/IRAN/14, 16 Jun-23 Dec 1994
1975-ca 1990 BM, Iranian Room [IR] case ?, no. 4
- Acquisition date
- 1960
- Acquisition notes
- Deposited by Mr Movaghar on 29/10/59 (WAA deposit book entry 1279)
- Department
- Middle East
- BM/Big number
- 132903
- Registration number
- 1960,1010.1
