Button-Based Situlas
-900–-700
- Medium
- bronze, repoussé, punched, incised
- Dimensions
- Diameter: 5.9 cm (2 5/16 in.); Overall: 13 cm (5 1/8 in.)
- Genre
- Metalwork
- Museum
- Cleveland Museum of Art
Tags
Iran, Luristan
About
The metalworkers of Luristan provided the Assyrian empire with elaborate bronze ornaments and vessels. These two situla have symmetrical decoration—one with ibexes drinking from an overflowing water jar; the other, with sphinxes.