Ceremonial Belt

between 850 and 650 BCE

Assyrian, Mesopotamian, Artist Urartian, Armenian, Artist

On View

Ancient Middle East Gallery, Level 1, West Wing

Ceremonial Belt: 1 of Collection Gallery

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Title Ceremonial Belt

Artwork Date between 850 and 650 BCE

Makers (Artist) Assyrian, Mesopotamian (Artist) Urartian, Armenian

Medium Bronze, hammered sheet metal, repoussé, engraved

Dimensions Overall: 12 × 16 × 13 1/2 inches (30.5 × 40.6 × 34.3 cm)

Classification Metalwork

Department Ancient Near Eastern Art

Credit Founders Society Purchase with funds from the Richard and Jane Manoogian Foundation

Accession Number This unique number is assigned to an individual artwork as part of the cataloguing process at the time of entry into the permanent collection. Most frequently, accession numbers begin with the year in which the artwork entered the museum’s holdings. For example, 2008.3 refers to the year of acquisition and notes that it was the 3rd of that year. The DIA has a few additional systems—no longer assigned—that identify specific donors or museum patronage groups. 1997.35

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(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.