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Composite Lion and Bull

Composite Lion and Bull

1500–1000 BCE
bronze, cast
Overall: 11.4 x 9.7 x 14.8 cm (4 1/2 x 3 13/16 x 5 13/16 in.)
John L. Severance Fund 1969.122
Location: 102A Ancient Near East

Description

Combining the strength of the lion and the fertility of the bull, this creature must have served as an object of worship in a temple or shrine.
  • -1969
    Mr. Ben Heller, New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art
    1969-
    The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
  • Vollenweider, Marie-Louise, Françoise Brüschweiler, and Rolf A. Stucky. Trésors de l'ancien Iran: [exposition] Musée Rath, Genève, 8 juin-25 septembre 1966. [Genève]: [Musée Rath], 1966. no. 533, front cover
    Lee, Sherman E. "The Year in Review for 1969." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 57, no. 1 (1970). p. 6&44, no. 4 www.jstor.org
    Cooney, John D. "A Medley of Bulls." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 58, no. 1 (January 1971): 10-19. Mentioned and reproduced: P. 15, fig. 8 www.jstor.org
    Saidenberg Gallery. Beyond Europe: Sculptures from "Other Cultures" from the Collection of Ben Heller, Inc. 1971. fig. 9
    Cleveland Museum of Art, Gabriel P. Weisberg, and H. W. Janson. Traditions and Revisions: Themes from the History of Sculpture. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1975. no. 96
  • Traditions and Revisions: Themes from the History of Sculpture. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 24-November 16, 1975).
    Year in Review: 1969. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 27-February 22, 1970).
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