Reproduction of a Bearded Bull-Man on Vessel used in ritual pouring. Sumerian, Bronze Age, Mesopotamia Reproduction.
The original is a carved stone pouring vessel featuring a recumbent man-headed bull. This piece was unearthed during the joint University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology and the British Museum excavation at the Mesopotamian city of Ur in the 1920s. Original is in the University of Pennsylvania Museum collection. Made of carved calcite painted with a black pigment, it is representative of a class of stone bowls with shapes derived from half shells. The object is assumed to be related to ritual pouring in funerary rituals.
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- Subject Matter: Pouring vessel
- Inventory Number: 2014.1.64
- Collections: Sacred World Art Collection