Plaster cast

Museum number:
21-76
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21210000076
Alternate number:
1149 (original number) and 8-5076 (previous museum number (recataloged from))
Accession number:
Acc.158 and Acc.193
Description:
Cast of lion couchant with a ring on his back, Assyrian. From a bronze original found Louvre Museum, Paris. Perrot and Chipiez, History of Art in Chaldaea and Assyria. A similar but smaller lion in the British Museum bears and inscription. “Weighted before the supervisors of silver,” in Phoenician characters. Taylor, The Alphabet. They were explained as anchors for flag halyards. They are more probably standard weights.
Donor:
Alfred Emerson
Collection place:
Louvre Museum, Paris, France
Verbatim coll. place:
Cast Works of the Louvre Museum, Paris
Collector:
Alfred Emerson
Collection date:
ca. 1904
Object type:
archaeology
Accession date:
1904 and 1905
Department:
Casts and molds
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Plaster cast, accession number 21-76, described as Cast of lion couchant with a ring on his back, Assyrian. From a bronze original found Louvre Museum, Paris. Perrot and Chipiez, History of Art in Chaldaea and Assyria. A similar but smaller lion in the British Museum bears and inscription. “Weighted before the supervisors of silver,” in Phoenician characters. Taylor, The Alphabet. They were explained as anchors for flag halyards. They are more probably standard weights.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Plaster cast, accession number 21-76, described as Cast of lion couchant with a ring on his back, Assyrian. From a bronze original found Louvre Museum, Paris. Perrot and Chipiez, History of Art in Chaldaea and Assyria. A similar but smaller lion in the British Museum bears and inscription. “Weighted before the supervisors of silver,” in Phoenician characters. Taylor, The Alphabet. They were explained as anchors for flag halyards. They are more probably standard weights.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Plaster cast, accession number 21-76, described as Cast of lion couchant with a ring on his back, Assyrian. From a bronze original found Louvre Museum, Paris. Perrot and Chipiez, History of Art in Chaldaea and Assyria. A similar but smaller lion in the British Museum bears and inscription. “Weighted before the supervisors of silver,” in Phoenician characters. Taylor, The Alphabet. They were explained as anchors for flag halyards. They are more probably standard weights.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Plaster cast, accession number 21-76, described as Cast of lion couchant with a ring on his back, Assyrian. From a bronze original found Louvre Museum, Paris. Perrot and Chipiez, History of Art in Chaldaea and Assyria. A similar but smaller lion in the British Museum bears and inscription. “Weighted before the supervisors of silver,” in Phoenician characters. Taylor, The Alphabet. They were explained as anchors for flag halyards. They are more probably standard weights.

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