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Apr 9, 2008
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Button-Based Situlas
Button-Based Situlas
900–700 BC
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Bronze, repoussé, punched, incised
Diameter: 5.9 cm (2 5/16 in.); Overall: 13 cm (5 1/8 in.)
Norman O. Stone and Ella A. Stone Memorial Fund, and James Parmelee Fund 1960.35
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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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