kuloha.blogg.se - Guennol lioness

It is quite unfortunate that the 'average' archaeological finds rarely make it in public view. Sotheby's made a video of it: See it HERE (even if you don't care for the refined salesmnship, it is nice to see the thing handled!) Another type shared between the same two locations HERE, courtesy of the Louvre. Chicago offers an account of the dig and the items in its posession HERE, but not the one. I am quite curious of what the mentioned 'pair' found at Dyala looks like, but there is no source at hand (I do not read German). There isn't allot at hand to judge the meaning and the relative accomplishment of the object against The auctioneers ventured this guess LINK along with beefy bibliography.Ī couple of the items cited are online: the silver figure in the Met collection and the seal imprint showing the same lion-headed character with a sizeable tail attached where the carving has four holes to show. There isn't much to look at for reference.

I am curious to what the holes are behind the head. Redrawnoxen ( talk) 02:17, 27 August 2013 (UTC) It is a loan, not owned by the musem, and these often aren't in a collection database. The statue does not show up in the museum's database if you search for 'lioness'. The first paragraph says the statue is still on display at the Brooklyn Museum, but I believe this information is outdated. Not on display at Brooklyn Museum anymore? I have deleted the offending paragraphs as infringement (per the note right below the edit box, among other places).

And this article dates only to December 5 Parchin's article dates to October.

The problem is, that is a blacklisted site, so a) I can't give the link whole, you'll have to splice it together and b) it's blacklisted for a reason, I'd presume. The article appears to bear similarities-and in many cases identical text-from the History section on down to the article located at /article.cfm/sothebys_auction_guennol_lioness on server.

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]] -Preceding unsigned comment added by Boma2007 ( talk Parts of this piece were plagiarized and stolen from Stan Parchin from his article at. Chmyr ( talk) 22:49, 6 December 2007 (UTC) Copyvio?

Sorry about tagging this one for speedy deletion.- Carados ( talk) 04:01, 6 December 2007 (UTC) Thank you for the image uploaded Chmyr ( talk) 03:21, 6 December 2007 (UTC) Sorry Wikipedia readers should be entitled to this treasure of ancient civilization. This ancient sculpture has got a great significance in terms of history and archaeology. 6 More historical/contextual information, less collector bragging rights.5 Not on display at Brooklyn Museum anymore?.This article has not yet received a rating on the project's importance scale. This article has been rated as Start-Class on the project's quality scale. Ancient Near East Wikipedia:WikiProject Ancient Near East Template:WikiProject Ancient Near East Ancient Near East articles If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks. This article is within the scope of WikiProject Ancient Near East, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of Ancient Near East related articles on Wikipedia. This article has been rated as Start-Class on the quality scale. Sculpture Wikipedia:WikiProject Sculpture Template:WikiProject Sculpture sculpture articles This article is within the scope of WikiProject Sculpture, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of Sculpture on Wikipedia. This article is of interest to the following WikiProjects: This article has been rated as Start-Class by the WikiProject Vital Articles. Guennol Lioness has been listed as a level-5 vital article in Arts.