Head of a Bull

8th-7th century BCE (Iron Age)

11.8 cm 12.4 cm 10.5 cm

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This head was attached to the rim of an enormous cauldron excavated at the Urartian fortress of Toprakkale. The facial markings are characteristic of Urartian art of this period.

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36490
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Kalebjian Freres, Paris, [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Joseph Brummer, Paris and New York, 1928, by purchase [Brummer inv. no. P5463]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1929, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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