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SHM 21466,3MMLur 427 :: beaker

Object description: Sheet metal, hammered. Flat base, ring foot, concave walls widening at base and mouth, plain rim. Decor: hammered from inside: Tree with four circles, hanging cock's head one side? grass straws. Man in profile, short skirt, beard, rounded hat, faces away from tree, lifts both arms from waist, platform with three curved legs, kneeling figure with pyramidal hat, beard, arms bent up from waist, smaller figure bearded, feathered headdress? facing him and holding bull's head on diamond shaped base? Pole with mouflon and ibex heads facing away from each other. Decor: reclining feline, long tail, loop on end of platform; then kneeling figure with rounded hat shooting bow with arrow point visible, bow turned wrong way, very near standing deer? facing moose? with five fingered crown. Both animals standing on triple grass blades.

Data elements
References (1)

Inventory number

SHM 21466,3MMLur 427

Serie nummer

677

MM Lur

427

Object

beaker

Country - Findspot

Iran : Asia

Country, Swedish - Findspot

Iran

Place - Findspot

Luristan

Region - Findspot

Lorestan

Material

Bronze; Metal

Material, Swedish

Brons

Acquisition

Bought from Doctor Unvala, Bombay, 1936, said to be from Luristan. In another note Arne writes a brief description of how the entire collection was acquired stating there that the numbers 19666, 19818, 21446, 21455, 21456 and 21946 were bought on the European art market.

Description

Sheet metal, hammered. Flat base, ring foot, concave walls widening at base and mouth, plain rim. Decor: hammered from inside: Tree with four circles, hanging cock's head one side? grass straws. Man in profile, short skirt, beard, rounded hat, faces away from tree, lifts both arms from waist, platform with three curved legs, kneeling figure with pyramidal hat, beard, arms bent up from waist, smaller figure bearded, feathered headdress? facing him and holding bull's head on diamond shaped base? Pole with mouflon and ibex heads facing away from each other. Decor: reclining feline, long tail, loop on end of platform; then kneeling figure with rounded hat shooting bow with arrow point visible, bow turned wrong way, very near standing deer? facing moose? with five fingered crown. Both animals standing on triple grass blades.

Period

2400-2200 BC, form

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

Comments

Is decor fake. Could be from anywhere, anytime, decor not added later according to conservator. could diamond shape be finial like 299?

Cf Publications

Cf/excavation: for form: Schmidt et alii 1989, pl. 124c KII 226, p. 21 Kamtarlan 2 tomb Dx2 juvenile; pl. 124e KII 274, p. 22 tomb Dx4 female? adult; pl. 124d, KII 253, p. 22 tomb Dx5 male adult; pl. 124f Cha 5, p. 45 not excavated, Giyan III; pl. 126c KII 226, p. 21 Dx2, Middle Bronze Age Giyan IVC-III.

Publications

Marino-Hultman 1998, pp. 5-12, Fig. 4 a-c

Reference - Published in

Marino-Hultman, Pat (1998) " An Assyrian Bronze Bowl" in Medelhavsmuseet Bulletin no 31 (1998), p. 5-12.

Source - http: books.google.se, libris.kb.se

Kind

Height / Höjd

Cf MMLur

Diameter

Dimensions

H. 7.7 cm, Ø 5.9 cm.

Condition

Black green surface.

Conservation - Executed

991012, Dnr. 819-4201-1998: Krafig smutsig på insidan samt inehåller ett vaxliknande matreal som smutsen fäster i. Mindre mängder vaxartat matreal finns också i mindre mängd på utsidan i ornamentik samt på undersidan. Åtgärd: Rengjordes mekaniskt med skalpell och pensel samt tvättades med etanol. Den ytbehandlades med mikrokristallint vax på fört med borste. Färgdia efter konservering.

Original register

Luristan

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