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Bull Calf Polemount
From the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art. Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.
About this work
Like most Mesopotamian sculptures in the round, this small bull was an object of worship in a temple. Its eyes, the triangle on the forehead, and the stripes in the rope were originally embellished with contrasting colored stones, or bone. The inlays are lost, but the sculpture itself is one of the very few original cult statues that have survived.
Cleveland Museum of Art’s own descriptionCredit lineBull Calf Polemount, c. 2700 BCE. Sumerian, Iraq. Basalt; overall: 7.7 x 5.1 x 13.1 cm (3 1/16 x 2 x 5 3/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund, 1970.61
