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Button-Based Situlas
900-700 BC
The Cleveland Museum of Art
Cleveland, United States
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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- Title: Button-Based Situlas
- Date Created: 900-700 BC
- Physical Dimensions: Diameter: 5.9 cm (2 5/16 in.); Overall: 13 cm (5 1/8 in.)
- Type: Metalwork
- Rights: CC0
- External Link: https://clevelandart.org/art/1960.35
- Medium: bronze, repoussé, punched, incised
- Department: Egyptian and Ancient Near Eastern Art
- Culture: Iran, Luristan, 9th-7th Century BC
- Credit Line: Norman O. Stone and Ella A. Stone Memorial Fund, and James Parmelee Fund
- Collection: Near Eastern Art
- Accession Number: 1960.35
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