Hand Drummer (900–700 BCE): Art, History and Details

Hand Drummer (900–700 BCE) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection.

The work and its context

The museum's open-access catalogue describes the work:

This plaque is probably one of several that decorated the side of a throne. The man's hair and costume are similar to those on the huge wall relief, and they are probably about the same date.

Object facts

• Title: Hand Drummer
• Date: 900–700 BCE
• Culture: Assyrian, Iraq or possibly Syria
• Type: Metalwork
• Technique: bronze, solid cast
• Dimensions: Overall: 7.3 x 3.8 cm (2 7/8 x 1 1/2 in.)
• Collection: Near Eastern Art
• Department: Egyptian and Ancient Near Eastern Art
• Accession number: 1969.67

Collection credit

Andrew R. and Martha Holden Jennings Fund

Further reading listed by the museum

• Kozloff, Arielle P. “Three Ancient near Eastern Celebrations and a Guest of Honor.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 61, no. 1 (January 1974): 14–26.

View the collection record

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