Portion of a beam - Specimen details
| Catalogue Number: 17248 | |||||
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| No Image | Plant Name | 208.00 PINACEAE Cedrus libani | Entry Book Number | 64.1914 | |
| Artefact Name | Portion of a beam | Vernacular Name | |||
| Iso Country | Iraq | TDWG Region | Iraq | ||
| Parts Held | Portion of a beam | Geography Description | Iraq, [Kurdistan], Asia-Temperate, Western Asia, Site of Nimrud | ||
| Uses | Portion of a beamUse: User: Not defined | TDWG use | |||
| Storage | Archaeological | Related Items | |||
| Donor | Church Sir AH | Donor No | |||
| Donor Date | 03/09/1914 | Donor Notes | Church Shelsby Sir AHx0Dx0A | ||
| Collector | Layard AH | Collector No | |||
| Collection Notes | Collection Date | 00/00/1853 | |||
| Exhibition | Expedition | ||||
| Number Components | Publication | ||||
| Notes: | Label source: Portion of a beam of Cedar, probably Cedrus libani Loud. from the ruins of a small Temple at Nimrod, Kurdistan. About 3,000 years old. Sir A H Church Shelsby, Ennerdale Rd, Kew Gardens. The structure of the specimen indicates that the woodi, s cedar, as stated by Layard. L.A.B. 31.8.14. See Layard's Nineveh and Babylon (1853) page 357. Discoveries in the ruins of Niniveh & Babylon by Austen H Layard M.P. London 1853. page 357. At Nimroud the Arab excavators in the small temple had dug out a b, eam and had at once made a fire. The wood was cedar; probably one of the very beams mentioned in the inscription as brought from the forests of Lebanon by the King who built the edifice. After a lapse of nearly 3000 years it had retained its original fra, grance. Many other such beams were discovered. Several specimens are now in the British Museum: this piece was sawn from one of these. A H Church. | ||||