Button-Based Situlas (900–700 BCE): Art, History and Details
Button-Based Situlas at the Cleveland Museum of Art: 900–700 BCE, bronze, repoussé, punched, incised. Explore the work's context, creator attribution and collection history.
Button-Based Situlas (900–700 BCE) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection.
The work and its context
The museum's open-access catalogue describes the work:
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.
Object facts
- Title: Button-Based Situlas
- Date: 900–700 BCE
- Culture: Iran, Luristan
- Type: Metalwork
- Technique: bronze, repoussé, punched, incised
- Dimensions: Diameter: 5.9 cm (2 5/16 in.); Overall: 13 cm (5 1/8 in.)
- Collection: Near Eastern Art
- Department: Egyptian and Ancient Near Eastern Art
- Accession number: 1960.35
Collection credit
Norman O. Stone and Ella A. Stone Memorial Fund, and James Parmelee Fund
View the collection record
See the museum's photographs and full catalogue entry. Catalogue text is reproduced from the Cleveland Museum of Art's open-access data, with HTML formatting removed. This object and its supplied image are designated CC0.
Sources
More in Lifestyle
Keep reading
