Hand Drummer
900–700 BCE
- Medium
- bronze, solid cast
- Classification
- Metalwork
- Dimensions
- Overall: 7.3 x 3.8 cm (2 7/8 x 1 1/2 in.)
- Culture
- Assyrian, Iraq or possibly Syria
- Museum
- Cleveland Museum of Art, Egyptian and Ancient Near Eastern Art
- Credit line
- Andrew R. and Martha Holden Jennings Fund
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Teens profiles and older: its museum says too little about what it shows to place it for younger viewers. How works are placed
View at the Cleveland Museum of Art
About this 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.
