vessel-fitting

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Object Type
Museum number: 91242
Description: Copper alloy cauldron handle in the form of the head of a winged bull; the wings 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: 16.50 - 22 centimetres; Width: 17.50 centimetres; Depth: 15 centimetres
Curator's comments: This object was sent to be moulded for casting by Mr Prescott between 5 December 1967 and 17 April 1968 (Objects to Lab, 6 May 1958-31 December 1970). Pair with 1880,1216.59 (BM.91240).
Bibliographic references: Budge 1922a / A guide to the Babylonian and Assyrian antiquities. (p.172); Barnett 1950a / The Excavations of the British Museum at Toprak Kale near Van (p.19, & pl.XVI(2)); Woolley 1961a / Mesopotamien und Vorderasien (title page); van Loon M N 1966a / Urartian art: its distinctive traits in the light of new excavations (pl.XXII); Lloyd S 1967a / Early highland peoples of Anatolia (fig.115); Azarpay G 1968a / Urartian art and artifacts: a chronological study. (pl.33); Bartoloni et al 2000a / Principi etruschi tra Mediterraneo ed Europa (cat.5, pp.102-104) (entry by Marinella Marchesi); Hughes et al 1981 / Analyses of some Urartian bronzes (no.10)
Location: Not on display
Exhibition history: Exhibited: 2018-2019 8 Nov-24 Feb, London, BM, I am Ashurbanipal, king of the world, king of Assyria 2018 May-Sep, Hong Kong, Hong Kong Museum of History, An Age of Luxury 2014 22 Sep - 2015 5 Jan, New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 'Assyria to Iberia at the Dawn of the Classical Age' 2000 1 Oct-2001 1 Apr, Bologna, Museo Civico Archeologico, 'Principi etruschi tra Mediterraneo ed Europa' 1991 28 May-7 Oct, Israel, Jerusalem, The Israel Museum, 'Urartu, A metal working centre in the first millennium BC'
Subjects: cattle; mythical figure/creature
Acquisition date: 1880
Department: Middle East
BM/Big number: 91242
Registration number: 1880,1216.60

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