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Head of Gudea
Head of Gudea

Head of Gudea

2144–2124 B.C.
Object PlaceProbably Tello, Iraq
Medium/TechniqueDiorite
DimensionsHeight: 23.18 cm (9 1/8 in.)
Credit LineBartlett Collection—Museum purchase with funds from the Francis Bartlett Donation of 1912
Accession number26.289
On View
On view
ClassificationsSculpture
ProvenanceBy 1865-1870, purchased in Baghdad by Thomas Kerr Lynch (b. 1818 – d. 1891), Baghdad and London [see note 1]; 1891, by descent within the family; 1924, sold by the Lynch family, through Ibrahim Élias (J. E.) Géjou, Paris, to Feuardent Frères, Paris; 1926, sold by Feuardent Frères to the MFA for $25,158.75. (Accession Date: December 2, 1926)

NOTES:
[1] According to a letter from E.A. Wallis Budge to C.H. Hawes of the MFA (February 5, 1927).