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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1991.30
Title
Man with Dagger
Classification
Sculpture
Work Type
sculpture
Date
10th-first half 8th century BCE
Places
Creation Place: Ancient & Byzantine World, Asia, Luristan (Iran)
Period
Iron Age
Culture
Iranian
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/299886

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Bronze
Technique
Cast, lost-wax process
Dimensions
18 cm (7 1/16 in.)
Technical Details

Chemical Composition: ICP-MS/AAA data from sample, Bronze:
Cu, 91.83; Sn, 7.23; Pb, 0.18; Zn, 0.007; Fe, 0.03; Ni, 0.05; Ag, 0.06; Sb, 0.09; As, 0.51; Bi, less than 0.025; Co, 0.029; Au, less than 0.01; Cd, less than 0.001
J. Riederer

Technical Observations: The patina is black with light brown surface soiling in crevices. The object is a solid cast made by the lost-wax process. There is no evidence as to whether or not a mold was used to form the general shape of the wax model. There are thin decorative incisions for the clothing, dagger, ankles, hands, and hat. The incisions are continuous, fluid lines that would have been made in the soft wax model. The funnel-shaped base is the remains of the pouring channel for the molten metal.


Tracy Richardson (submitted 1999)

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Gift of the Schimmel Foundation, Inc.
Accession Year
1991
Object Number
1991.30
Division
Asian and Mediterranean Art
Contact
am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Dr. Dietrich von Bothmer, Ancient Art from New York Private Collections: Catalogue of an Exhibition held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, exh. cat., The Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, NY, 1961), p. 11, no. 52, pl. 16, no. 52.
  • Roman Ghirshman, Sept Mille Ans d'Art en Iran: Petit Palais, Octobre 1961 - Janvier 1962, exh. cat., Association Française d'action artistique (Paris, 1961), p. 52, no. 291.
  • Herbert D. Hoffmann, ed., The Beauty of Ancient Art: Classical Antiquity, Near East, Egypt. Exhibition of the Norbert Schimmel Collection, November 15, 1964 to February 14, 1965, exh. cat., Verlag Philipp von Zabern (Mainz, 1964), no. 64.
  • Oscar White Muscarella, ed., Ancient Art: The Norbert Schimmel Collection, Verlag Philipp von Zabern (Mainz, 1974), no. 146.
  • Jürgen Stettgast, Von Troja bis Amarna: The Norbert Schimmel Collection, New York, exh. cat., Verlag Philipp von Zabern (Mainz, 1978), no. 170.
  • Susanne Ebbinghaus, ed., Ancient Bronzes through a Modern Lens: Introductory Essays on the Study of Ancient Mediterranean and Near Eastern Bronzes, Harvard Art Museum and Yale University Press (Cambridge, MA, 2014), p. 51

Exhibition History

  • The Beauty of Ancient Art: the Norbert Schimmel Collection, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 11/15/1964 - 02/14/1965
  • Von Troja bis Amarna: The Norbert Schimmel Collection, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, 03/18/1978 - 05/28/1978; Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, 06/24/1978 - 09/03/1978; Archäologische Staatssammlung München - Museum für Vor- und Frühgeschichte, 09/28/1978 - 01/06/1979

Subjects and Contexts

  • Ancient Bronzes

Verification Level

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