Plaque

65-31-344

From: Iran | Hasanlu

Curatorial Section: Near Eastern

Object Number 65-31-344
Current Location Collections Storage
Provenience Iran | Hasanlu
Archaeology Area BB31(5)[1]
Section Near Eastern
Materials Ivory
Iconography Hand | Horse Head
Description

Ivory fragments with hands and horses heads.

Muscarella Publication: "Fragment depicting two overlapping chariot horses' heads, right. The mane is rendered by thick oblique and semicircular patterns; a herring-bone motif is on the upper neck (a strap?); a curved thickness by the (broken away) mouth could be a bit. Before them is a warrior with a spear raised in his right hand. He wears a "feather" helmet (cf. nos. 55A, B, 57, 59, 61) with straight hair flaring out in the rear; his cloak has a scalloped border. The reverse is plain."

Muscarella Publication: "Two fragments of hands of charioteers holding reins, left. Vertical scoring on the reverse."

Muscarella Publication: "Scene similar to no. 76. Extant are the lower part of the face, the bare arm and the right hand, which is thick. the beard is scraggy, like nos. 76, 78."

Muscarella Publication: "Four fragments preserving figures, right, with long floor-length braided hair. In all examples crudely carved hands are preserved; in at least three examples the hands hold an unidentifiable rectangular (?) object at the sides. One fragment preserves the long hair of a second figure at the right, suggesting a procession or group activity."

Muscarella Publication: "A small fragment of a hand holding a staff. The fragment has burned white."

"A small fragment preserving the right hand of a figure holding a staff, and the tip of his nose. The reverse has irregular scoring."

Muscarella Publication: "Extant is the thin bent arm of a figure holding a palm (?) or a stalk of wheat (?), right. Two vertical bands exist at the right."

Muscarella Publication: "Fragment preserving the rear part of an animal galloping (?) right. A thick herringbone pattern decorates the back. An unidentified object touches the back; it may be a spear head."

Muscarella Publication: "Apparently an animal moving left. Its body is outlined in thick incisions and what appears to be the tip of a tail is seen below its body."

Muscarella Publication: "Small fragment preserving part of the horned head of an animal, left. Part of the ear and a section of the back decorated in herringbone pattern in relief are extant. (Cf. no. 153.) The top edge, a narrow band, is intact."

Muscarella Publication: "Part of a horned animal, right. The horn, in relief and incised, curves around to touch the back of the neck. This area as well as a pattern on the neck is in relief. The plain left border is intact."

Muscarella Publication: "A bird with a sharp beak, a squat body, and short legs, left. A tail flares out behind. The plain upper and left, and the raised bottom, edges are intact."

Muscarella Publication: "

extant are two claw-like rear feet of a lion; no tufts are shown. A section of the stomach is visible at the right. The plain right edge is intact; the intact lower edge has the top part of a guilloche completed on a separate plaque. The reverse has many neat scoring marks, vertical and horizontal."

Muscarella Publication: " Fragments with representations of lions; there are at least three heads. The fragment at the left preserves the ear and part of the triangle-incised mane; the central one preserves the top part of the head; the right preserves the top of a head. Other fragments preserve the chest and front leg, part of a mane, and a neatly incised flame pattern from a haunch. All the intact upper borders have a grooved ridge. It is not clear whether these fragments were parts of plaques or of a vessel."

Credit Line The Hasanlu Project; Robert H. Dyson Jr., 1964
Other Number HAS64-1065 - Field No SF

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