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Source Description
The metalworkers of Luristan provided the Assyrian empire with elaborate bronze ornaments and vessels. These two situla are decorated symmetrically---one with ibexes drinking from an overflowing water jar; the other, with sphinxes.
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136457
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Button-Based Situla
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136457
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object
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Button-Based Situla
description
The metalworkers of Luristan provided the Assyrian empire with elaborate bronze ornaments and vessels. These two situla are decorated symmetrically---one with ibexes drinking from an overflowing water jar; the other, with sphinxes.
date
900–700 BCE
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en
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Q60779858
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Metalwork
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Diameter: 5.9 cm (2 5/16 in.); Overall: 13 cm (5 1/8 in.)
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Iran, Luristan
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1960.35.1
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bronze, repoussé, punched, incised
tombstone
Button-Based Situla, 900–700 BCE. Iran, Luristan. Bronze, repoussé, punched, incised; diameter: 5.9 cm (2 5/16 in.); overall: 13 cm (5 1/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Norman O. Stone and Ella A. Stone Memorial Fund, and James Parmelee Fund, 1960.35.1
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Near Eastern Art
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1960.35
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Norman O. Stone and Ella A. Stone Memorial Fund, and James Parmelee Fund
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2026-06-18 21:18:28.799000
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136457
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Egyptian and Ancient Near Eastern Art
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Near Eastern Art
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bronze, repoussé, punched, incised
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