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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1939.180.A
Title
Man with Nimbus Riding a Deer
Classification
Sculpture
Work Type
relief, sculpture
Date
late 7th to early 8th centuries
Places
Creation Place: Middle East, Iran
Find Spot: Middle East, Iran, Chal Tarkhan
Period
Umayyad period
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/216663

Physical Descriptions

Medium
stucco
Dimensions
H. 31.5 x W. 39.2 x D. 8 cm (12 3/8 x 15 7/16 x 3 1/8 in.)

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Gift of the Trustees of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts
Accession Year
1939
Object Number
1939.180.A
Division
Asian and Mediterranean Art
Contact
am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description
Stucco relief fragments in Sasanian style set in modern plaster support, representing a male figure with nimbus, dressed in coat and trousers and wearing a low crown, seated on the back of a stag in flying gallop. Head and chest of the rider are frontal. He holds on to the stag’s left antler with his left hand while carrying a detached antler (formerly the stag’s right?) in his extended right hand. Two ribbons flutter from his back.

Publication History

  • Deborah Thompson, Stucco from Chal Tarkhan-Eshqabad near Rayy, Aris and Phillips (Warminster, Wiltshire, England, 1976), pp. 50-54 and 169, cat. 176, plan IV.

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Verification Level

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