wall-plaque
- Museum number
- N.2039
- Description
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Eleven fragments of glazed fired clay wall-plaque of round knob-plate type, of which ten are joined: this will have been fixed with a pin to a separate shank which held it on the wall. A hole for a pin is visible in the neck.
- Production date
- 875BC-865BC
- Dimensions
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Diameter: 45 centimetres
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Height: 14 centimetres
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Thickness: 15 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- Part of N.2041-N.2042.
Bibliography:
P. Albenda, Decorated Assyrian knob-plates in the British Museum, ‘Iraq’ 53 (1991), 45.
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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Exhibited:
2020 20 Feb-25 Oct, CaixaForum Zaragoza, An Age of Luxury
2019-2020 18 Sep-12 Jan, CaixaForum Madrid, An Age of Luxury
2019 4 Apr-11 Aug, CaixaForum Barcelona, An Age of Luxury
2018-2019 8 Nov - 24 Feb, London, BM, I am Ashurbanipal, king of the world, king of Assyria
2018 9 May-3 Sep, Hong Kong History Museum, An Age of Luxury
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
- Registration number
- N.2039