figurine
- Museum number
- 90989
- Description
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Clay bird-headed apkallu figurine.
- Production date
- 800BC-600BC
- Dimensions
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Height: 12.30 centimetres
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Thickness: 2 centimetres
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Width: 7.60 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- This figure is recorded as having been found 'in a brick receptacle let into the floor' (G. Smith 1875: 78). It is probably part of an original deposit of seven.
Found with DT.387 (BM 90990)
Found with DT.388 (BM 90991)
Found with DT.389 (BM 90992)
Found with DT.390 (BM 90998)
Found with DT.391 (BM 91839)
Bibliography:
G. Smith, ‘Assyrian Discoveries’ (London, 1875), 78;
D. Rittig, ‘Assyrisch-babylonische Kleinplastik magischer Bedeutung vom 13.-6. Jh. v. Chr.’ (Munich, 1977), 72.
- Location
- On display (G55/dc9)
- Exhibition history
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Exhibited:
2008-2009 21 Sept-4 Jan, Boston, MFA, 'Art and Empire'
2007 2 Apr-30 Sept, Alicante, MARQ Museum, 'Art and Empire'
2006 1 Jul-7 Oct, Shanghai Museum, 'Art and Empire'
- Department
- Middle East
- BM/Big number
- 90989
- Registration number
- DT.386
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: 12122 (?)