vessel-fitting
- Museum number
- 91242
- Description
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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.
- Production date
- 8thC BC-7thC BC
- Dimensions
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Height: 16.50 - 22 centimetres
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Width: 17.50 centimetres
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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).
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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Exhibited:
2020 20 Feb-25 Oct, CaixaForum Zaragoza, An Age of Luxury
2019-2020 18 Sep-12 Jan, CaixaForum Madrid, An Age of Luxury
2019 4 Apr-11 Aug, CaixaForum Barcelona, An Age of Luxury
2018-2019 8 Nov-24 Feb, London, BM, I am Ashurbanipal, king of the world, king of Assyria
2018 9 May-3 Sep, Hong Kong History Museum, 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'
- Acquisition date
- 1880
- Department
- Middle East
- BM/Big number
- 91242
- Registration number
- 1880,1216.60
