Button-Based Situla
-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 are decorated symmetrically---one with ibexes drinking from an overflowing water jar; the other, with sphinxes.