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Button-Based Situla
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About this work
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.
Cleveland Museum of Art’s own descriptionCredit lineButton-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
