Statue
29-20-3
Location: On Display in the Middle East Galleries
From: Iraq | Fara
Curatorial Section: Near Eastern
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Object Number
29-20-3
Current Location
Middle East Galleries - On Display
Culture
Sumerian
Provenience
Iraq | Fara
Period
Pre-Sargonic
Section
Near Eastern
Materials
Copper | Mollusk Shell | Stone
Iconography
Goat Head
Description
Copper, with stone and shell inlay
Copper, similar to 29-20-2, but larger, kept by H.V. Hilprecht. See description in EXCAVATIONS IN ASSYRIA AND BABYLONIA, p. 539: "A better preserved, larger head of the same animal (two thirds life size)." --not illustrated.
Museum Bulletin Vol. I, No. 1, Plate VIII
#153
Height
22.3 cm
Width
23 cm
Depth
10 cm
Credit Line
Bequest of H. V. Hilprecht and S. C. Hilprecht, 1925/1929
Current & Past Exhibitions
Bibliography
Kawami, Trudy S., and John Olbrantz. Breath of Heaven, Breath of Earth: Ancient Near Eastern Art from American Collections . University of Washington Press, 2013. Page/Fig./Plate: 162/47
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Quick, Jennifer. Magnificent Objects from the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology . 1st ed. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, 2004. Page/Fig./Plate: 154
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Aruz, Joan. Art of the First Cities: The Third Millennium B.C. from the Mediterranean to the Indus . New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2003. Page/Fig./Plate: 82
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Legrain, Leon. "The Babylonian Collection of the University Museum." The University Museum Bulletin 10, no. 3-4. (1944): 1-75. Page/Fig./Plate: 43
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Legrain, Leon. "The Jemdet-Nasr Period ." The University Museum Bulletin 10, no. 3-4. (1944): 40-43. See: p. 43, fig. 29
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"The Sallie Crozer Hilprecht Collection ." The University Museum Bulletin 1, no. 1. (1930): 15-19. See: p. 16, pl. VIII
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Legrain, Leon. "Fâra: The Babylonian Collections of the University Museum ." The University Museum Bulletin X, no. 3-4. (1944): 42-43. See: p. 43, fig. 29
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