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Plaque fragment

Period:: Iron Age II
Date:: ca. 9th century B.C.
Geography:: Iran, Hasanlu
Medium:: Ivory
Dimensions:: 0.51 x 0.83 x 0.31 in. (1.3 x 2.11 x 0.79 cm)
Classification:: Ivory/Bone
Credit Line:: Rogers Fund, 1965
Accession Number:: 65.163.13

This artwork is not on display

Provenance

1964, excavated by Robert H. Dyson Jr. on behalf of the Hasanlu Project sponsored by the University Museum of the University of Pennsylvania, the Archaeological Service of Iran, and The Metropolitan Museum of Art; acquired by the Museum in 1965, as a result of its financial contribution to the excavations.
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What
Sculpture (24,350)

Fragments (15,188)

Bone (6,328)

Ivory (5,389)

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Where
Asia (68,071)

Iran (7,061)

Hasanlu (397)
When
1000 B.C.-A.D. 1 (23,148)
In the Museum
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Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History
Iran, 1000 B.C.–1 A.D.

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