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Bull Head Attachment
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About this work
The kingdom of Urartu was contemporary with the Assyrian civilization. The Urartians produced elaborate bronze objects and probably passed on many of their metalwork traditions to the Achaemenian Persians. This bull head was probably one of four placed at cardinal points around the rim of a huge Urartian bronze cauldron.
Cleveland Museum of Art’s own descriptionCredit lineBull Head Attachment, c. 700–600 BCE. Urartian, northwest Iran, possibly Gusçi, Lake Urmia. Bronze; overall: 16.6 cm (6 9/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund, 1942.204
