Creative Commons License
Creative Commons License
Creative Commons License
Creative Commons License
Creative Commons License
Creative Commons License
Female Fertility Finial
8th-7th century BCE (Iron Age)
cast bronze
(Ancient Near East )
(Ancient Near East )
This piece adopts the traditional Near Eastern image of a nude female figure, holding her breasts in her hands. Cock heads sprout from each shoulder.
Provenance
Provenance (from the French provenir, 'to come from/forth') is the chronology of the ownership, custody, or location of a historical object. Learn more about provenance at the Walters.
Provenance (from the French provenir, 'to come from/forth') is the chronology of the ownership, custody, or location of a historical object. Learn more about provenance at the Walters.
[Found in Nevahend, Persia (?)]; Dikran Kelekian, New York and Paris, [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1931, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
Measurements
5 11/16 x 2 1/16 x 13/16 in. (14.5 x 5.3 x 2 cm)
Credit Line
Acquired by Henry Walters, 1931
Location in Museum
Accession Number
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In libraries, galleries, museums, and archives, an accession number is a unique identifier assigned to each object in the collection.
54.121