Neo-Hittite Seated Figure in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, February 2020

Object Details

Title: Seated figure

Period: Neo-Hittite

Date: 10th–9th century BC

Geography: Syria, Tell Halaf

Medium: Basalt

Dimensions: 192 × 82 × 100 cm, 3000 kg (75 9/16 × 32 5/16 × 39 3/8 in., 6613.8 lb.)

Classification: Saddle Plates

Credit Line: Max Freiherr von Oppenheim Foundation, Cologne

Provenance: Excavated in 1912 at Tell Halaf (Syria) under the direction of Max von Oppenheim; ceded to Max von Oppenheim in the division of finds and exhibited in the Tell Halaf museum (Berlin) in 1930; in 1943, the Tell Halaf museum was destroyed by Allied bombing attack; the Tell Halaf collection was transferred in 1944 to the Pergamon Museum, Staatliche Museen in Berlin, where it is on loan by the Max Freiher von Oppenheim Foundation (set up by Oppenheim himself in 1929).

Text from: www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/827295