Plaster cast of ashur

Museum number:
21-211
Permalink:
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Alternate number:
1999 (original number), 8-5211 (previous museum number (recataloged from)), and 928 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.153 and Acc.193
Description:
Cast of Ashur. Twice. A winged and tailed circle frames the bust and areas of a bearded deity of Assyrian style. On its back is an eye for suspension by a chain. The object was a cauldron handle. From a bronze discovered and preserved at Olympia, Greece. A specimen exactly like our next beardless deity has been found near Van, Armenia, and confirms the Asiatic origin of the model. The half figure in a winged circle was a common Oriental rendering of the supreme god. Syrrus and Darius pray to the symbol on the sculptured rocks of Behistan, Persia. Olympia IV Plate 44. Friederichs-Wolters 362.
Donor:
Alfred Emerson and Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
Gipsformerei, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Germany
Verbatim coll. place:
Berlin Cast Works
Collector:
Alfred Emerson
Object type:
archaeology
Function:
5.7 Objects made for sale, souvenirs, models, and reproductions
Accession date:
1904 and 1905
Department:
Casts and molds
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Plaster cast of ashur, accession number 21-211, described as Cast of Ashur. Twice. A winged and tailed circle frames the bust and areas of a bearded deity of Assyrian style. On its back is an eye for suspension by a chain. The object was a cauldron handle. From a bronze discovered and preserved at Olympia, Greece. A specimen exactly like our next beardless deity has been found near Van, Armenia, and confirms the Asiatic origin of the model. The half figure in a winged circle was a common Oriental rendering of the supreme god. Syrrus and Darius pray to the symbol on the sculptured rocks of Behistan, Persia. Olympia IV Plate 44. Friederichs-Wolters 362.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Plaster cast of ashur, accession number 21-211, described as Cast of Ashur. Twice. A winged and tailed circle frames the bust and areas of a bearded deity of Assyrian style. On its back is an eye for suspension by a chain. The object was a cauldron handle. From a bronze discovered and preserved at Olympia, Greece. A specimen exactly like our next beardless deity has been found near Van, Armenia, and confirms the Asiatic origin of the model. The half figure in a winged circle was a common Oriental rendering of the supreme god. Syrrus and Darius pray to the symbol on the sculptured rocks of Behistan, Persia. Olympia IV Plate 44. Friederichs-Wolters 362.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Plaster cast of ashur, accession number 21-211, described as Cast of Ashur. Twice. A winged and tailed circle frames the bust and areas of a bearded deity of Assyrian style. On its back is an eye for suspension by a chain. The object was a cauldron handle. From a bronze discovered and preserved at Olympia, Greece. A specimen exactly like our next beardless deity has been found near Van, Armenia, and confirms the Asiatic origin of the model. The half figure in a winged circle was a common Oriental rendering of the supreme god. Syrrus and Darius pray to the symbol on the sculptured rocks of Behistan, Persia. Olympia IV Plate 44. Friederichs-Wolters 362.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Plaster cast of ashur, accession number 21-211, described as Cast of Ashur. Twice. A winged and tailed circle frames the bust and areas of a bearded deity of Assyrian style. On its back is an eye for suspension by a chain. The object was a cauldron handle. From a bronze discovered and preserved at Olympia, Greece. A specimen exactly like our next beardless deity has been found near Van, Armenia, and confirms the Asiatic origin of the model. The half figure in a winged circle was a common Oriental rendering of the supreme god. Syrrus and Darius pray to the symbol on the sculptured rocks of Behistan, Persia. Olympia IV Plate 44. Friederichs-Wolters 362.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Plaster cast of ashur, accession number 21-211, described as Cast of Ashur. Twice. A winged and tailed circle frames the bust and areas of a bearded deity of Assyrian style. On its back is an eye for suspension by a chain. The object was a cauldron handle. From a bronze discovered and preserved at Olympia, Greece. A specimen exactly like our next beardless deity has been found near Van, Armenia, and confirms the Asiatic origin of the model. The half figure in a winged circle was a common Oriental rendering of the supreme god. Syrrus and Darius pray to the symbol on the sculptured rocks of Behistan, Persia. Olympia IV Plate 44. Friederichs-Wolters 362.

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