- Museum number
- 118102
- Description
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Ivory handle: a group in the form of two women standing back to back. They have long hair and necklaces, and are naked except for straight sided hats with vertical lines; these are sometimes called 'polos'-hats and are shaped like a fez. Above the heads of the women is a leaf-shaped capital. There is a circular dowel hole at the top, and remains of a peg on the base. This object was probably a handle, perhaps from a fan or mirror.
- Production date
- 900BC-700BC
- Dimensions
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Height: 13 centimetres
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Weight: 74 grammes
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Width: 4.90 centimetres (maximum)
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Depth: 2.70 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- On the Assyrian reliefs fans or fly-whisks with elaborate handles are shown being carried by attendants, and a mirror is held by Esarhaddon's mother Naqi'a on a bronze slab in the Louvre. The style of this and comparable pieces is generally regarded as Syrian.
Bibliography:
R. D. Barnett, ‘A Catalogue of Nimrud Ivories in the British Museum’ (London, 1975), 207, S.210, pl. LXXIV.
- 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 9 May-3 Sep, Hong Kong History Museum, An Age of Luxury
2014 30 Apr-10 Aug, Bonn, Germany, Art & Exhibition Hall of the FDR, 'The Tel Halaf Adventure'
2013-2014 22 June-6 Jan, Toronto, Royal Ontario Museum, 'Mesopotamia, Inventing Our World'
2013: 30 Jan-13 May, Museum of History, Hong Kong, 'The Wonders of Ancient Mesopotamia'
2012: 4 May-7 Oct, Melbourne Museum, 'The Wonders of Ancient Mesopotamia'
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'
2000-2001 1 Oct-1 Apr, Bologna, Museo Civico Archeologico, 'Principi etruschi tra Mediterraneo ed Europa'
1988 Feb-Nov, Italy, Venice, Palazzo Grassi, I Fenici
- Department
- Middle East
- BM/Big number
- 118102
- Registration number
- N.904
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: S.210
