costume-fitting(?)
- Museum number
- 134906
- Description
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Gilt-silver foil roundel; may have been worn attached to clothing; centre-piece of human head; outer frieze of couchant goats; herring bone pattern round centre piece and outer edge; bronze work almost all broken off, but pattern visible in the bitumen.
- Production date
- 1350BC-1200BC (about)
- Dimensions
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Diameter: 9.80 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- Research lab Report 1/1/1970.
Comparanda include:
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY (acc. no. 62.115)
Prudence Oliver Harper cat. entry in Oscar White Muscarella (ed.), 'Ancient Art: The Norbert Schimmel Collection', Mainz: Philipp voz Zabern 1974, no. 151
art market (Artcurial 2012: 'Arts d'Orient et de l'Islam', Paris, pp. 58-59, lots 93-94; Artcurial, 'Arts d'Orient et de l'Islam', Paris sale 12 May 2014, lots 39-40)
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
-
Exhibited:
1995-2005 17 Nov-6 Dec BM, G52/IRAN/5/5, from official opening
1994 16 Jun-23 Dec BM, G49/IRAN/5
1975-ca 1990 Jul- BM, Iranian Room [IR] case ?, nos 8-9 (part)
- Acquisition date
- 1967
- Acquisition notes
- Reported to Trustees for Board 25 January 1967
- Department
- Middle East
- BM/Big number
- 134906
- Registration number
- 1967,0213.3
