Dumbarton Oaks - Tribute Bearer or Servant with an Offering

Tribute Bearer or Servant with an Offering

Ancient Near Eastern
486 BCE - 465 BCE (reign of Xerxes)
50 cm x 30 cm x 10.2 cm (19 11/16 in. x 11 13/16 in. x 4 in.)
limestone
BZ.1932.4

On view

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Additional Images

Obverse

Bibliography

P. Ackerman, Guide to the Exhibition of Persian Art, 2. ed. (New York, 1940), 306, no. 12.

The Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection of Harvard University, Handbook of the Collection, (Washington, D.C., 1946), 18, no. 2.

The Dumbarton Oaks Collection, Harvard University, (Washington, D.C., 1955), 9, no. 1.

G. M. A. Richter, Catalogue of Greek and Roman Antiquities in the Dumbarton Oaks Collection, Dumbarton Oaks Catalogues (Cambridge, 1956), 1,2, no. 1, pl. 1, A.

Handbook of the Byzantine Collection, (Washington, D.C., 1967), 1, no. 1.

Exhibition History

New York, Iranian Institute, "Six Thousand Years of Persian Art," April 24, 1940 - June 1940.

Acquisition History

From the Palace of Darius or the Palace of Xerxes at Persepolis, Iran.

Dikran Kelekian (1867–1951); purchased from Kelekian by Mildred and Robert Woods Bliss, Washington, D.C., 1932.

Transferred to Harvard University, Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, Byzantine Collection, Washington, D.C., November 1940.

Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, Byzantine Collection, Washington, D.C.

Object Last Modified: 3/24/2023