plaque;
horse-harness
- Museum number
- 135999
- Description
-
Copper alloy plaque engraved with a deity in a winged sun-disc; originally part of a horse-harness side-piece stitched to a leather backing.
- Production date
- 9thC BC-8thC BC
- Dimensions
-
Length: 12.40 centimetres
-
Width: 9.50 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- Authenticity questioned by Muscarella (2000a: 'The Lie Became Great', p. 154).
- Location
- On display (G54/dc6/sC)
- Exhibition history
-
Exhibited:
1991 28 May-7 Oct, Israel, Jerusalem, The Israel Museum, 'Urartu, A metal working centre in the first millennium BC'
- Condition
- Thick corrosion bonded with dirt and silicates (?) and obscuring engraved detail (assessment 1989)
- Acquisition date
- 1974
- Department
- Middle East
- BM/Big number
- 135999
- Registration number
- 1974,0223.2
