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accession number: 1971.45
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Priest-King or Deity, c. 1600 BCE. Hittite, North Syria. Basalt with bone eyes (left, ancient; right, restored); overall: 87.6 cm (34 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. Fund 1971.45
title: Priest-King or Deity
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creation date: c. 1600 BCE
creation date earliest: -1605
creation date latest: -1595
current location: 102A Ancient Near East
creditline: Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. Fund
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culture: Hittite, North Syria
technique: basalt with bone eyes (left, ancient; right, restored)
department: Egyptian and Ancient Near Eastern Art
collection: Near Eastern Art
type: Sculpture
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measurements: Overall: 87.6 cm (34 1/2 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS
title: Year in Review: 1971
opening date: 1971-12-28T05:00:00
Year in Review: 1971. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 28, 1971-February 6, 1972).
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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS
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PROVENANCE
Mrs. Maguerite Mallon, Sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art
date: ?-1971
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The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
date: 1971-
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RELATED WORKS
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CITATIONS
Kozloff, Arielle P. "A Hittite Priest-King Figure." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 59, no. 2 (1972): 56-62.
page number: pp. 56-62
url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25152417
Gazette Des Beaux Arts vol. 79, no. 227 (February 1972).
page number: p. 66, fig. 227
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Spaeth, Eloise. American Art Museums: An Introduction to Looking. New York: Harper & Row, 1975.
page number: p. 339
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The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978.
page number: Reproduced: p. 2
url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n22
Spycket, Agnès. La statuaire du Proche-Orient ancien. Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1981.
page number: p. 266, note 187
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Merhav, Rivka, "The Stele of the 'Serpent Goddess' from Ell beit Mirsim and the Plaque from Shechem Reconsidered," The Israel Museum Journal vol. 4 (Spring 1985).
page number: pp. 29-30, pl. V, 1A, aB
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The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1991.
page number: Reproduced: p. 3
url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1991/page/n19
Cleveland Museum of Art. Interpretations: Sixty-Five Works from the Cleveland Museum of Art. 1991.
page number: no. 1
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Cleveland Museum of Art. The CMA Companion: A Guide to the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2014.
page number: Mentioned and reproduced: P. 68
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