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SHM 20563 MMLur 141 :: bident

Object description: Cast and hammered? Folded socket with moulding at base, and two long, tapering hollow cast? prongs circular in section. Decor: on neck incised figure in knee bent position, with raised hands, long sleeves? or in right hand a snake? In front of left hand a water bird, leafy object below foot, animal head? Long dress with hanging middle band (Pat drew as trousers) spade-like shapes over each shoulder.

Data elements

Inventory number

SHM 20563 MMLur 141

Serie nummer

383

MM Lur

141

Object

bident

Country - Findspot

Iran : Asia

Country, Swedish - Findspot

Iran

Place - Findspot

Luristan

Region - Findspot

Lorestan

Material

Bronze; Metal

Material, Swedish

Brons

Acquisition

Bought by Prof. Ture Arne in Iran in 1932

Description

Cast and hammered? Folded socket with moulding at base, and two long, tapering hollow cast? prongs circular in section. Decor: on neck incised figure in knee bent position, with raised hands, long sleeves? or in right hand a snake? In front of left hand a water bird, leafy object below foot, animal head? Long dress with hanging middle band (Pat drew as trousers) spade-like shapes over each shoulder.

Time - Manufacturing, earliest

1300 BC

Name - Acquired from

Arne, Ture J:son (1879-05-07 - 1965-08-02), archaeologist

Description: Ture Arne Johnson, born May 7, 1879 in Söderköping, died 2 August 1965, Swedish archaeologist.
PhD in Uppsala in 1914 with the thesis "La Suède et l'Orient, études sur les relations archéologiques de la Suède et de l'Orient pendant l'Age des Vikings". Arne's field of work was mainly the contacts between Scandinavia and the early Russia.
Source - http: collections.smvk.se
Source, Wikip. - is desc. by: sv.wikipedia.org
Source, Kulturnav - same as: kulturnav.org

Statens Historiska museum

Source - http: www.historiska.se, collections.smvk.se
Source, Kulturnav - same as: kulturnav.org

Event - Was Present At

The Swedish archaeological expedition to Iran (1932-1933)

Source - http: collections.smvk.se

Comments

Pat wonders if this could be textile tool Barber 1992, see excavation context. Inscribed figure like hers from the Balkan in Woman's work. Used for collecting byssos molusc Pinna filament see Dalley 1991: 121-123, decor might agree.

Cf Publications

Cf/excavation: Pulak 1988:19-20, fig 19 KW: 378 bronze tongs L: 55 (L: right MMLur different handle = not tongs?) see ref. there p. 20.;

Ben Arieh & Edelstein 1977 fig. 15: 2 trident 14th cent;

Tufnell 1953 Lachish pl. 40: 6 bronze trident, bident no measures, Iron A;

Edelstein 1973,14 c BC Tomb of Mercenary more than 50 cm long trident same shape Israel (cross roads people in this burial) see MMLur15, 16, 3;

Makkay 1983 excavated Sialk Bronze Age-Iron Age, Indo-European symbol of power and religion;

Martirosian 1964 fig 49:1, L.c. 36 cm, LB1. fig 59:2 c 60 cm? Evkli. Fig 64as 49:! Adiamana. Chart 3:x10C BC no. 11 bident but 2x3 ridges on shaft;

Morgan 1889 MSC fig 138 bronze Mouçiyeri L: c 68 central ridges mid shaft, moulding shaft mouth;

Cf/collection: Moorey 1971, pl. 11: 101, Sialk mm (accessions, also says doubtful origin).

PhotoNegNo

Kind

Length / Längd

78,6 cm

Dimensions

L. 78.6 cm, L of prongs. 51.6 cm, L of socket. 27 cm, W at shoulders. 11 cm.

Condition

Black bronze surface. Intact.

Original register

Luristan

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