Portion of a beam - Specimen details

Portion of a beam - Specimen details

Back to search results

Catalogue Number: 17248

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.

Simple search   |   Amend search