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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1962.65
Title
Recumbent Ibex
Classification
Sculpture
Work Type
sculpture, statuette
Date
10th-8th century BCE
Places
Creation Place: Ancient & Byzantine World, Asia, Iran
Period
Iron Age
Culture
Iranian
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/304226

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Bronze
Technique
Cast, lost-wax process
Dimensions
5.6 x 5.9 x 1.9 cm (2 3/16 x 2 5/16 x 3/4 in.)
Technical Details

Chemical Composition: ICP-MS/AAA data from sample, Bronze:
Cu, 92.16; Sn, 7.13; Pb, 0.19; Zn, 0.004; Fe, 0.03; Ni, 0.05; Ag, 0.06; Sb, 0.12; As, 0.25; Bi, less than 0.025; Co, 0.01; Au, less than 0.01; Cd, less than 0.001
J. Riederer

Technical Observations: The patina is pitted greenish black, possibly tenorite, with red cuprite visible under the black in a few places. Brown deposits from burial are also present. The object is mostly intact and has two protrusions on the bottom.

The statuette is a solid lost-wax cast, with most details probably created on the wax model.


Carol Snow (submitted 2002)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Marian H. Phinney, Cambridge, MA, (by 1962), bequest; to Fogg Art Museum, 1962.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Bequest of Marian H. Phinney
Accession Year
1962
Object Number
1962.65
Division
Asian and Mediterranean Art
Contact
am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • David Gordon Mitten and Amy Brauer, Dialogue with Antiquity, The Curatorial Achievement of George M. A. Hanfmann, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1982), p. 17, no. 71.

Exhibition History

  • Dialogue with Antiquity: The Curatorial Achievement of George M.A. Hanfmann, Fogg Art Museum, 05/07/1982 - 06/26/1982

Subjects and Contexts

  • Ancient Bronzes

Verification Level

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