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Tube with Feline Face
8th-mid 7th century BCE (Iron Age III)
bronze
This hollow tube may have functioned as a finial.
Provenance
Provenance (from the French provenir, 'to come from/forth') is the chronology of the ownership, custody, or location of a historical object.
Provenance (from the French provenir, 'to come from/forth') is the chronology of the ownership, custody, or location of a historical object.
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: 2 15/16 × 7 1/16 in. (7.5 × 18 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.
54.124