A rare Mesapotamian limestone figure of a...
A rare Mesapotamian limestone figure of a recumbant bull, early Bronze age, mid-3rd millenium B.C., the beard possible added later, formerly with inlaid eyes, 10cm. long x 7.8cm. high Provenance: Private collection, 1980’s. For a similar example see the Akkadian Kusarikkum figures illustrated in J. Aruz, Art of the First Cities: The Third Millenium BC from the Mediterranean to the Indus, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 2003, no. 111 and 157a.
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A rare Mesapotamian limestone figure of a recumbant bull, early Bronze age, mid-3rd millenium B.C., the beard possible added later, formerly with inlaid eyes, 10cm. long x 7.8cm. high Provenance: Private collection, 1980’s. For a similar example see the Akkadian Kusarikkum figures illustrated in J. Aruz, Art of the First Cities: The Third Millenium BC from the Mediterranean to the Indus, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 2003, no. 111 and 157a.
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