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SHM 20563 MMLur 301 :: finial

Object description: Cast. Master of animals: anthropomorphic tube. One face at top with head tapering to flat end, loop ears, straight eyebrows, round eyes, incised small mouth. Bent arms grasp flanking monster, two small breasts at shoulder level, and round paws with four stripes incised at junction of monster and tube. Girdle-belt has four ridges. Plain haunches with wires to knees, no separate legs and tails but end in loop, round striped paws, plain base. Flanking monsters have long gaping jaws, ridges around snout, and prominent eye coils, plus pendant roosters heads.

Data elements

Inventory number

SHM 20563 MMLur 301

Serie nummer

554

MM Lur

301

Object

finial

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. Master of animals: anthropomorphic tube. One face at top with head tapering to flat end, loop ears, straight eyebrows, round eyes, incised small mouth. Bent arms grasp flanking monster, two small breasts at shoulder level, and round paws with four stripes incised at junction of monster and tube. Girdle-belt has four ridges. Plain haunches with wires to knees, no separate legs and tails but end in loop, round striped paws, plain base. Flanking monsters have long gaping jaws, ridges around snout, and prominent eye coils, plus pendant roosters heads.

Period

750-700, 9-8th cent BC (Porada) ca 750.

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

Keyword

anthropomorphic

Cf Publications

Cf/excavation: Vanden Berghe 1968d: 63 standard, H: 19.2 cm with base (H: 18) Bani Surmah 750-700. 1st excavated standard. 3 faces, roosters, elaborate girdles, solid haunches, horse hooves? no tail?

—1968c fig 45 see above here said from Tattulban, Chinan same! idol, also fig 46: 6,7;

— 1984 p 203 fig. 9 Tattulban, Chinan tomb 4 n. 6.7 on base, ca 750 BC;

— 1968c figs 45,46: 6,7;

Vanden Berghe & Haerinck 1984 fig. 9 ca 750 BC (per Schmidt et alii 1989, 495);

Cf/collection: Moorey 1971, pl. 34:178, 35:179; Schmidt et alii 1989 pl. 263a Teh 13 copper H 22, complex, hanging roosters' heads, chapter 35, p. 493 bought from Tehran dealers in 1938;

Potratz 1968 Sarre: taf XXXIX: 243, 244;

Speleers 1931 fig 20 no measures very elaborate 2 faces and roosters.

Publications

Arne 1962 MMBull fig 1.

PhotoNegNo

49 L

Kind

IIIa

Length / Längd

17,6 cm

Cf MMLur

296 1955,17, 301, 130vb

Dimensions

L. 17.6 cm, W. 6 cm.

Condition

Green surface. Intact.

Original register

Luristan

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