vessel-fitting

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Object Type
Museum number: 91240
Description: Copper alloy cauldron handle in the form of the head of a winged bull; the wings (missing in this case) were fastened to the vessel by rivets. Originally there may have been four of these attachments just below the rim; the bulls have a characteristic ornamented forelock.
Cultures/periods
Production date: 8thC BC-7thC BC
Excavator/field collector: Excavated by: Emilius Clayton; Excavated by: Dr G C Raynolds; Excavated by: Hormuzd Rassam
Findspot: Excavated/Findspot: Toprakkale
Materials
Dimensions: Height: 13 centimetres; Width: 11 centimetres
Curator's comments: Pair with 1880,1216.60 (BM.91242).
Bibliographic references: Budge 1922a / A guide to the Babylonian and Assyrian antiquities. (p.172 (& illus.)); Barnett 1950a / The Excavations of the British Museum at Toprak Kale near Van (p.19, & pl.XVI); Woolley 1961a / Mesopotamien und Vorderasien (title page); Vanden Berghe & De Meyer 1982a / Urartu: een vergeten cultuur uit het bergland Armenië (no.179, p.209); Hughes et al 1981 / Analyses of some Urartian bronzes (no. 9)
Location: On display (G54/dc6/sC)
Exhibition history: Exhibited: 1982 8 Oct-1983 30 Jan, Belgium, Ghent, St Peter’s Abbey, Urartu: een vergeten cultuur uit het bergland Armenië
Condition: Originally displayed on a polished white marble mount.
Subjects: cattle; mythical figure/creature
Acquisition date: 1880
Department: Middle East
BM/Big number: 91240
Registration number: 1880,1216.59
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