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Button-Based Situla
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Button-Based Situla

900–700 BCE · bronze, repoussé, punched, incised

From the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art. Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.

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 description
Credit lineButton-Based Situla, 900–700 BCE. Iran, Luristan. Bronze, repoussé, punched, incised; diameter: 6.2 cm (2 7/16 in.); overall: 13.1 cm (5 3/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Norman O. Stone and Ella A. Stone Memorial Fund, and James Parmelee Fund, 1960.35.2
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