Human-Headed Genie Holding a Basket and Cone
Egyptian, Classical, Ancient Near Eastern Art
On View: Ancient Middle Eastern Art, The Hagop Kevorkian Gallery, 3rd Floor
In Assyrian art the basket and cone almost always appear in the hands of supernatural creatures rather than humans, suggesting that these objects may have served a magical purpose. Assyrian texts refer to the basket and cone carried by the genies in many of these reliefs as a “bucket” and “purifier.” This terminology may indicate that in addition to serving to pollinate the sacred tree (as scholars have concluded), these objects had a cleansing effect as well.
ca. 883-859 B.C.E.
90 1/4 x 79 1/8 in. (229.2 x 201 cm) (show scale)
Purchased with funds given by Hagop Kevorkian and the Kevorkian Foundation
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