Dignitaries with companions | Photographer: Claudia Obrocki
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Dignitaries with companions
High-ranking dignitary with eben sword, lance, rectangular bell and six attendants
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Ethnologisches Museum
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Object type
Relief plaque
Dimensions
Gewicht: 22,4 kg
Objektmaß: 57,5 x 40 x 11 cm
Objektmaß: 57,5 x 40 x 11 cm
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
III C 8054
Provenance and sources
where
Benin [kingdom]
when
16th century
where
Nigeria [Land]
who
William Downing Webster (1868-05-11 - 1913-01-14) - Former Possessors
Description
16th cent, commissioned by Oba Esigie (r. 1517-1550) or his son Oba Orhogbua (r. 1550-1570), royal palace, Benin City; by inheritance to Oba Ovonramwen (ca. 1857-1914; r. 1888-97), Royal Palace, Benin City; looted in connection with the British conquest of Benin, 1897; came into the possession of the dealer William D. Webster, 1897-1898; purchased by the Royal Museum of Ethnology, 1898.
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