1.3.02026-10-18braceletRådata3400829objektStatens museer för världskultur - MedelhavsmuseetSMVK-MMFöremålhttp://kulturarvsdata.se/SMVK-MM/objekt/3400829BEK 1956.07Open bracelet in shape of a stylized snake with two heads, one in each end of the hoop. The hoop is solid, rather thin and in a circular shape. The hoop and the two heads of the snake are decorated with a incised rope-like ornament on the outside. The inside of the hoop is plain. The heads are pierced by small holes at the fronts.BEK 1956.07, Donation of the Hungarian-American professor Georg von Békésy (1899-1972). He was leader of the research-department at the Hungarian Telephone Company until he left Hungary in 1946. After spending a period at the Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm (1946-1947), professor at Harvard University (1947-1966), and after that he served at the University of Hawaii. In 1961, he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in Stockholm. His good relations to Sweden resulted in several donations received by Swedish Museums in 1972. The numbers connected with the objects in these donations are still those given by von Békésy himself., Probably originates from the Kaukasus area, Urartu nearby Van in present Turkey, and classified as an Amlash-bracelet, a district in present north-western Iran., Shape irregular., 1., Ø 7.8 cm., M. von Heland, Georg von Békésy’s Antiksamling. Klartext framställd av studenter vid Institutionen för Konstvetenskap, Stockholms Universitet, Stockholm 1974, 50-53., Guldrummet 2022, Guldrummet, Iran, Guldrummet 2022, Mesopotamien, Guldrummet - Showcase 11:01., Från Georg von Békésy samling.FörvärvadBékésy, Georg vonFunnenAsien, Iran, Possibly Odessa, Amlash, Persia.ÄgdNobelstiftelsenimage/jpeghttps://collections.smvk.se/carlotta-mhm/web/image/tn/3637170/representationhttps://collections.smvk.se/carlotta-mhm/web/image/zoom/3637169/representationhttp://kulturarvsdata.se/resurser/License#byKaneberg, OveStatens museer för världskulturhttp://kulturarvsdata.se/SMVK-MM/Photograph/3922876http://kulturarvsdata.se/SMVK-MM/exhibition/5251722http://kulturarvsdata.se/SMVK-MM/exhibition/3953765http://kulturarvsdata.se/SMVK-MM/exhibitionpart/5251724http://kulturarvsdata.se/SMVK-MM/exhibitionpart/3953766http://kulturarvsdata.se/SMVK-EM/name/1040906http://kulturarvsdata.se/SMVK-MM/objekt/html/3400829http://kulturarvsdata.se/SMVK-MM/objekt/xml/3400829http://kulturarvsdata.se/SMVK-MM/objekt/rdf/3400829