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Unknown artist |
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| Description |
English: Bull-man protecting a palmtree, detail from a panel of molded bricks (1940s reconstruction). Terracotta, middle 12th century BC. Found at the Tell of the Apadana in Susa.
The inscription running along the central band record that Shilhak-Inshushinak made a statue of brick for the exterior chapel of Inshushinak.
Français : Homme-taureau protégeant un palmier. Panneau de briques moulées, terre cuite, milieu du XIIe siècle av. J.-C. Trouvé à Suse, dans le tell de l'Apadana (salle d'audience). |
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| Current location |
Department of Oriental Antiquities, Sully, ground floor, room 10 |
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| Accession number |
Sb 14390 & Sb 14391 |
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| Credit line | Excavated by Roland de Mecquenem, 1913–1921 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| References |
Prudence Oliver Harper, Joan Aruz, Françoise Tallon, The royal city of Susa: ancient Near Eastern treasures in the Louvre, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1992, ISBN 9780810964228, p. 282. Daniel T. Potts, The archaeology of Elam: formation and transformation of an ancient Iranian state, World Archaeology Series, Cambridge University Press, 1999, ISBN 9780521564960, p. 240. |
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| Source/Photographer | Jastrow (2005) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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