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BEK 1960.04 :: Sculpture

Object description: Hollow cast bronze bust. Long haired man with rounded winged crown. Almond shaped eyes double outlined, pupil dot visible on right. Faintly visible mouth topped by a long curving moustache. The beard is in two parts: a raised tripart under lower lip, and a semi-circle decorated with three horizontal ladder-like bands. Circles in front of the ears may indicate sideburns. Kidney shaped ears bear tear-drop earrings. He has shoulder length hair in the form of vertical ladders, side curls above the ears and a slight band under the crown. Decor: crown in the form of round helmet with one crenelated wing intact on right. Knob upper front, flat top with central hole. Double stranded necklace with two pendants, V-necked garment, dotted circles on the V, whorls on the shoulders, and vertical ridges (folds?) from mid chest down. Chest tapers sharply to the socle from rounded shoulders. Crown rests on band with dotted circles ending center back in wide area engraved with bow with two pleated ribbons falling to mid back.

Data elements
References (2)

Inventory number

BEK 1960.04

Serie nummer

724

MM Lur

1960,04

Object

Sculpture

Object, Swedish

Figur; Skulptur

Country - Findspot

Iran : Asia

Material

Bronze; Metal

Material, Swedish

Brons

Exhibitions

Exhibition : från kilskrift till ryttarfolk 1996; Permanent exhibition: showcase 09:01. No. 11.

Loan out - Planned

2021.0005, Nationalmuseum, Ungern

Acquisition

The Georg von Békésy Collection

Acquisition, Swedish

Georg von Békésy samling

Description, Swedish

Byst i brons av en skäggig man. 300-400-talet e.Kr.

Description

Hollow cast bronze bust. Long haired man with rounded winged crown. Almond shaped eyes double outlined, pupil dot visible on right. Faintly visible mouth topped by a long curving moustache. The beard is in two parts: a raised tripart under lower lip, and a semi-circle decorated with three horizontal ladder-like bands. Circles in front of the ears may indicate sideburns. Kidney shaped ears bear tear-drop earrings. He has shoulder length hair in the form of vertical ladders, side curls above the ears and a slight band under the crown. Decor: crown in the form of round helmet with one crenelated wing intact on right. Knob upper front, flat top with central hole. Double stranded necklace with two pendants, V-necked garment, dotted circles on the V, whorls on the shoulders, and vertical ridges (folds?) from mid chest down. Chest tapers sharply to the socle from rounded shoulders. Crown rests on band with dotted circles ending center back in wide area engraved with bow with two pleated ribbons falling to mid back.

Period

Fourth century AD; Sassanid

Name - Acquired from

Békésy, Georg von

Description: <space><space><space><space>During his lifetime, Bekesy collected a large number of
works of art and rare books. Many were lost in World War I,
others in World War II, and some were destroyed or damaged
as a result of a fire in Memorial Hall at Harvard. In spite of all
this, the collection gradually grew larger and more varied. But
the collection was almost as private as was Bekesy's personal
life—few persons were ever privileged to see more than a mere
fragment of it. Now, however, it is in the public domain. In his
last will and testament, Bekesy chose to honor the Nobel
Foundation, which had earlier bestowed such great honor upon
him, with a gift of that which was closest and dearest to him—
the art objects that he had collected over the years and that had
been both a source of inspiration in his work and a source of
solace for a lonely man in times of need of comfort. The Georg
von Bekesy Collection of Art was placed on public exhibition
for the first time, by the Nobel Foundation, on December 9,
1974. His collection of books is now in the Library of the
University of Hawaii. (Ratliff, Floyd, 1976, Georg von Békésy 1899—1972, A Biographical Memoir)
Source - http: collections.smvk.se, libris.kb.se, collections.smvk.se
Source, Wikip. - is desc. by: sv.wikipedia.org

Exhibition - Previously

Främre Orienten

Description: Near Eastern Collections
Among the highlights in the Near Eastern collection, are the Bronze Age objects found by professor T Arne, during the Swedish excavations of 1932 in Shah Tepe in northeastern Iran.
The Museum of Mediterranean and Near Eastern Antiquities also has one of the world's largest and finest collections of ancient Persian bronzes from Bronze- and Iron Age Luristan(2700 BC – 650 BC.
From Mesopotamia the museum has a representative collection of cuneiform tablets and seals from Sumerian and Babylonian times.
A relief from the Northwest palace in Nimrud, built by the Assyrian king Assurnasirpal II and dated to 860 BC, can be seen at the museum. Across the relief is a long inscription that tells the story of the king and his achievements.
The Englishman Austin Henry excavated the relief in the 1840’s in Iraq and presented it to Queen Josephine of Sweden. She in turn donated it to The National Museum of Fine Arts in Stockholm for its opening in 1866.A copy of the original relief is on display for the time being at the museum. (www.medelhavsmuseet.se, 2010-09-08)
The exhibition is located in room 9.
Time - Start: 20002000 [?]
Time - End: 20122012 [?]

Kilskrift och ryttarfolk

Time - Start: 1996-051996-05

Exhibition, Part of - Previously

Främre Orienten - Showcase 09:01.

Name - Owner

Nobelstiftelsen

Source - http: collections.smvk.se, collections.smvk.se
Source, Viaf - same as: viaf.org

Comments

The crown can be reconstructed to resemble that of Yazdijird I (399-420) or Shapur II (310-379) with wings on side, half moon or wing in front (SPA 252B, Porada). It has a less portrait-like and lively feeling than that of a later Sasanian king in the Louvre (Parrot) or a Parthian man in bronze (SPA 134c). Similar to the Louvre are the necklace, garment and perhaps shoulder whirl. Ours shows a better transition from head to shoulder, is more modest in execution, and does not have the details of clothing in back as does the Louvre's. The beard is somewhat like that of king Uthal from Hatria in the Iraq Museum, Baghdad, (Parthian - first half 2nd C AD). Our head also shows some resemblance to a Parthian head from Susa ( Osten) as well as the Parthian bronze mentioned above. Another Sasanian bust in silver (Atil) is closer to the Louvre's and also mid sixth century inn date. Thus ours is probably later than the Parthian ones and earlier than the ones of the sixth century. Its hair style tends to place it in the fourth century as does the crown (SPA 162B, 209).

Keyword

Google Art; Lorestan

Keyword, Swedish

Luristan

NegNo

8536D

Cf Publications

Cf/excavation: Pope 1938 v. I p. 634 fig. 211 from Kish, Palace 11, location B (see Fig. 172);

Cf/collection: Atil 1971: 15, no. 44;

Colledge 1967: pl. 17, 49;

"Mostra D'Arte Iranica." 1956: pl. XXXII:234;

Osten 1956: pl. 82, 83, 104;

Parrot 1953: 1-11, fig. 3, pl. IV, V;

Porada 1965: 201;

Schlumbarger 1970: pl. 143;

Pope & Ackerman 1938 IV: pl. 134C, 162B, 209, 252B ((SPA), 1938 v. I p. 634 fig. 211.

Publications

Marino-Hultman 1974a: 72-73.

PhotoNegNo

8537D

Source - http

artsandculture.google.com

Kind

X (IX)

Height / Höjd

24,4 cm [utan sockel]; 32,5 cm [med sockel]

Width / Bredd

17,8 cm

Thickness / Tjocklek

8,1 cm

Dimensions

H. 24.4 cm, W. 17.8 cm, Thick. 8.1 cm.

Loan in - Current

in-1974.0001, Medelhavsmuseet

Condition

Scar on the base at back filled with lead. Pocked, unattractive surface in brown with flecks of green. Seems harshly cleaned chemically to remove heavy encrustation visible under beard. Hole at top maybe for attachment crown, front and left wings broken.

Week - Object of the week

2017-19

Original register

Luristan

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