1.3.02026-07-19sculpture, skulptur, figurRådata3500518objektStatens museer för världskultur - MedelhavsmuseetSMVK-MMFöremålhttp://kulturarvsdata.se/SMVK-MM/objekt/3500518BEK 1960.04Hollow cast bronze bust. Long haired man with rounded winged crown. Almond shaped eyes double outlined, pupil dot visible on right. Faintly visible mouth topped by a long curving moustache. The beard is in two parts: a raised tripart under lower lip, and a semi-circle decorated with three horizontal ladder-like bands. Circles in front of the ears may indicate sideburns. Kidney shaped ears bear tear-drop earrings. He has shoulder length hair in the form of vertical ladders, side curls above the ears and a slight band under the crown. Decor: crown in the form of round helmet with one crenelated wing intact on right. Knob upper front, flat top with central hole. Double stranded necklace with two pendants, V-necked garment, dotted circles on the V, whorls on the shoulders, and vertical ridges (folds?) from mid chest down. Chest tapers sharply to the socle from rounded shoulders. Crown rests on band with dotted circles ending center back in wide area engraved with bow with two pleated ribbons falling to mid back.BEK 1960.04, The Georg von Békésy Collection, The crown can be reconstructed to resemble that of Yazdijird I (399-420) or Shapur II (310-379) with wings on side, half moon or wing in front (SPA 252B, Porada). It has a less portrait-like and lively feeling than that of a later Sasanian king in the Louvre (Parrot) or a Parthian man in bronze (SPA 134c). Similar to the Louvre are the necklace, garment and perhaps shoulder whirl. Ours shows a better transition from head to shoulder, is more modest in execution, and does not have the details of clothing in back as does the Louvre's. The beard is somewhat like that of king Uthal from Hatria in the Iraq Museum, Baghdad, (Parthian - first half 2nd C AD). Our head also shows some resemblance to a Parthian head from Susa ( Osten) as well as the Parthian bronze mentioned above. Another Sasanian bust in silver (Atil) is closer to the Louvre's and also mid sixth century inn date. Thus ours is probably later than the Parthian ones and earlier than the ones of the sixth century. Its hair style tends to place it in the fourth century as does the crown (SPA 162B, 209)., Scar on the base at back filled with lead. Pocked, unattractive surface in brown with flecks of green. Seems harshly cleaned chemically to remove heavy encrustation visible under beard. Hole at top maybe for attachment crown, front and left wings broken., H. 24.4 cm, W. 17.8 cm, Thick. 8.1 cm., Exhibition : från kilskrift till ryttarfolk 1996, Permanent exhibition: showcase 09:01. No. 11., Cf/excavation: Pope 1938 v. I p. 634 fig. 211 from Kish, Palace 11, location B (see Fig. 172); Cf/collection: Atil 1971: 15, no. 44; Colledge 1967: pl. 17, 49; "Mostra D'Arte Iranica." 1956: pl. XXXII:234; Osten 1956: pl. 82, 83, 104; Parrot 1953: 1-11, fig. 3, pl. IV, V; Porada 1965: 201; Schlumbarger 1970: pl. 143; Pope & Ackerman 1938 IV: pl. 134C, 162B, 209, 252B ((SPA), 1938 v. I p. 634 fig. 211., Marino-Hultman 1974a: 72-73., https://artsandculture.google.com/asset/bust-unknown/uwFkTVGwq-SIeQ, Främre Orienten, Kilskrift och ryttarfolk, Iran [?], Främre Orienten - Showcase 09:01., Byst i brons av en skäggig man. 300-400-talet e.Kr., Georg von Békésy samlingFörvärvadBékésy, Georg vonBrukadFourth century AD, SassanidFunnenAsien, IranÄgdNobelstiftelsenimage/jpeghttps://collections.smvk.se/carlotta-mhm/web/image/tn/3632380/representationhttps://collections.smvk.se/carlotta-mhm/web/image/zoom/3632379/representationhttp://kulturarvsdata.se/resurser/License#byKaneberg, OveStatens museer för världskulturhttp://kulturarvsdata.se/SMVK-MM/Photograph/3921346http://kulturarvsdata.se/SMVK-MM/Photograph/3921347http://kulturarvsdata.se/SMVK-MM/exhibition/3953894http://kulturarvsdata.se/SMVK-MM/exhibition/3953666http://kulturarvsdata.se/SMVK-MM/exhibitionpart/3953898http://kulturarvsdata.se/SMVK-EM/name/1040906https://artsandculture.google.com/asset/bust-unknown/uwFkTVGwq-SIeQhttp://kulturarvsdata.se/SMVK-MM/objekt/html/3500518http://kulturarvsdata.se/SMVK-MM/objekt/xml/3500518http://kulturarvsdata.se/SMVK-MM/objekt/rdf/3500518