About the Artwork
Ceremonial Belt
between 850 and 650 BCE
(Artist) Assyrian, Mesopotamian (Artist) Urartian, Armenian
Bronze, hammered sheet metal, repoussé, engraved
Overall: 12 × 16 × 13 1/2 inches (30.5 × 40.6 × 34.3 cm)
Metalwork
Ancient Near Eastern Art
Founders Society Purchase with funds from the Richard and Jane Manoogian Foundation
1997.35
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Provenance
(Robert Haber & Associates, New York, New York, USA)
1997-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Peck, E. H. “A Decorated Bronze Belt in the Detroit Institute of Arts,” in Leaving No Stones Unturned, ed. E. Ehrenberg. 2002, pp. 183-202.
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possibly Assyrian, Mesopotamian; possibly Urartian, Armenian, Ceremonial Belt, between 850 and 650 BCE, bronze, hammered sheet metal, repoussé, engraved. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase with funds from the Richard and Jane Manoogian Foundation, 1997.35.
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