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Çatalhöyük Culture
7500 BC - 5700 BC
Neolithic+Near East
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Wild bull horns on pillars in Building 77 at Çatalhöyük site.
Category: SculptureLocation: ÇatalhöyükAttribution: Jason Quinlan
Licence: -- select --[🡭]Reference: Http://www.catalhoyuk.comCollection: N/A
Uruk period
4000 BC - 2900 BC
Neolithic+Near East
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Ancient+Mesopotamia & Persia
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Egg shaped stone jar with flat base; carved with two lions attacking bulls, with a scale pattern in 3 rows indicating the ground below; the neck is lost; two holes drilled opposite one another in the shoulder suggest that the jar may have been suspended.Rim and neck broken off.(BM)Late Uruk
Category: SculptureMaterial: GraniteDimensions: H 13.3cm Dia 8.25cmAttribution: British Museum
Licence: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0[🡭]Image note: Background croppedReference: 128886Collection: The British Museum
Sumer
2900 BC - 2124 BC
Ancient+Mesopotamia & Persia
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Copper alloy head of a young bull, broken from a relief; head complete, partly filled with bitumen, copper alloy fastening nail through the back of the neck; ears complete, eyes and muzzle clearly modelled; crescent in low relief on the forehead.
Excavated/Findspot: Tell Al-\\Ubaid, Temple of Ninhursag.(BM)
Category: SculptureMaterial: Copper alloy, bitumenDimensions: L 11.43 cm W 13.97cm WT 1278 gmAttribution:
Licence: [🡭]Reference: 118015Collection: N/A
Neo-Palatial Minoan
1750 BC - 1500 BC
Ancient+Greece & Asia Minor
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Ancient+Greece & Asia Minor
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This vase is a type of rhyton, or libation vase. The offering was poured through the hole in the animals muzzle. The vase was filled either by immersion in a large container or through the hole on the head. Using the principle of the siphon, liquid would not flow out as long as the opening at the top was closed with the thumb.
Category: SculptureMaterial: TerracottaLocation: CreteAttribution: New York Met
Licence: CC0 1.0[🡭]Reference: 1973.35Collection: New York Metropolitan Museum of Art
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