The Cleveland Museum of Art

Collection Online as of April 24, 2024

Button-Based Situla

Button-Based Situla

900–700 BCE

Description

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.
  • Year in Review - Nineteen Hundred Sixty. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 30, 1960-January 1, 1961).
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Source URL:

https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1960.35.1