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| Keywords: Mesopotamian - Frog Amulet - Walters 421462.jpg In Mesopotamia jewelry was both worn and offered in temples as gifts to the gods Its purpose was often more functional than ornamental pendants worn on the body served as talismans to ward off evil and to increase the wearer's power Mesopotamian amulets depict a large range of animals native to the Near East illustrated here by a frog ca 3000 BC Prololiterate carved red-brown stone cm 2 06 accession number 42 1462 24675 Sale Sotheby and Co London November 26 1968 lot 20 Walters Art Museum 1968 by purchase Museum purchase 1968 Jewelry - Ancient to Modern The Walters Art Gallery Baltimore 1979-1980 Objects of Adornment Five Thousand Years of Jewelry from the Walters Art Gallery Baltimore Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum New York; Chrysler Museum of Art Norfolk; Carnegie Museum of Art Pittsburgh; San Antonio Museum of Art San Antonio; Philbrook Museum of Art Tulsa; Honolulu Academy of Arts Honolulu; New Orleans Museum of Art New Orleans; Milwaukee Art Museum Milwaukee; Minneapolis Institute of Arts Minneapolis; Toledo Museum of Art Toledo; The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art Sarasota 1984-1987 Jewelry from the Walters Art Museum and the Zucker Family Collection The Walters Art Gallery Baltimore 1987 Bedazzled 5 000 Years of Jewelry from the Walters Art Museum Frist Center for the Visual Arts Nashville; The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art Sarasota; The Walters Art Museum Baltimore 2006-2009 Bedazzled 5 000 Years of Jewelry El Paso Museum of Art El Paso 2010 place of origin Mesopotamia Walters Art Museum license Ancient Near East art in the Walters Art Museum Jewellery in the Walters Art Museum Art of Mesopotamia in the Walters Art Museum Frogs in art | ||||
