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Tube with Human Head
This hollow tube may have functioned as a finial. The human head is depicted as wearing a fungiform cap; large hoop earrings with pendants are attached to the ears.
Provenance
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Dikran Kelekian, New York and Paris, [date and mode of acquisition unknown] [said to be from Nehavend, Persia]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1931, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
Geographies
Iran, Luristan (Place of Origin)
Measurements
Overall: 3 1/2 × 7/8 in. (8.9 × 2.2 cm)
Credit Line
Acquired by Henry Walters, 1931
Location in Museum
Not on view
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.
54.126