Button-Based Situla
-900–-700
- Medium
- bronze, repoussé, punched, incised
- Dimensions
- Diameter: 6.2 cm (2 7/16 in.); Overall: 13.1 cm (5 3/16 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.