id:			147928
accession number:	1974.3
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1974.3
updated:		2023-08-23 22:29:15.054000

Ibis Eating a Lizard, 100 BC–AD 100. Italy, Rome, Roman Empire. Bronze, hollow cast; overall: 37.5 cm (14 3/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1974.3

title:				Ibis Eating a Lizard
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series:				
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creation date:			100 BC–AD 100
creation date earliest:		-100
creation date latest:		100
current location:		103 Roman
creditline:			Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
copyright:			

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culture:	Italy, Rome, Roman Empire
technique:	bronze, hollow cast
department:	Greek and Roman Art
collection:	GR - Roman
type:		Sculpture
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CREATORS

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measurements: Overall: 37.5 cm (14 3/4 in.)
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inscriptions:

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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		Year in Review: 1974
	opening date:   1975-03-11T04:00:00
	<i>Year in Review: 1974</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 11-April 6, 1975).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

* CMA, 11 March-6 April 1975, The Year in Review for 1974, cat.: CMA Bulletin 62, no. 3 (March 1975), no. 6, illus. p. 65

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PROVENANCE

	Perhaps Alexandria.
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	Purchased from Mohammed Yeganeh, Frankfurt
	date: 1974
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: 1974-
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fun fact:
This sculpture was possibly used as a support for furniture, a candelabrum, or an incense burner.

digital description:
The ibis is an Egyptian bird, shown here standing firmly on both legs with a lizard in its beak. The bird rests on a two-tiered circular base, and a vertical stem with incised decoration extends above the ibis’s head. While an Egyptian animal, the image of the ibis devouring a lizard became common only in the Roman world, depicted in wall paintings and seen on Barbotine ware, a type of pottery. This sculpture may be unique, however, in showing this motif in the round.

wall description:

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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	Kozloff, Arielle P. "A Bronze Menagerie." <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 63, no. 3 (1976): 75-88.
	page number: 	pp. 80-82
	url:		https://www.jstor.org/stable/25152628

	Berman, Lawrence M., and Kenneth J. Bohač.<em> Catalogue of Egyptian Art: The Cleveland Museum of Art.</em> Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1999
	page number: 	Reproduced: p. 482; Mentioned: p. 482-3
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