Kneeling Bull with Vessel
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{{infobox artifact|name=''Kneeling Bull With Vessel''|material=Silver|image=File:Proto-Elamite kneeling bull holding a spouted vessel.jpg|location=[[Metropolitan Museum of Art]]|period=[[Proto-Elamite]]|created=3100–2900 BC}} |
{{infobox artifact|name=''Kneeling Bull With Vessel''|material=Silver|image=File:Proto-Elamite kneeling bull holding a spouted vessel.jpg|location=[[Metropolitan Museum of Art]]|period=[[Proto-Elamite]]|created=3100–2900 BC}} |
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The '''''Kneeling Bull With Vessel''''' is a small 6 3/8 inches (16.3 cm) tall statue made of silver with an animal upper part of a bull holding a vessel with pebbles inside and a lower part shaped in the body of a kneeling human wearing a patterned article of clothing. The artist is unknown, and it is also not known if it has any spiritual connotations. Art such as this shows vigorously developing cultural environments, including the building of cities and development of writing, around the Southern [[Mesopotamia]] region in South West [[Iran]] and border regions of [[Iraq]] around the 3100–2900 B.C. The statue is on display at |
The '''''Kneeling Bull With Vessel''''' is a small 6 3/8 inches (16.3 cm) tall statue made of silver with an animal upper part of a bull holding a vessel with pebbles inside and a lower part shaped in the body of a kneeling human wearing a patterned article of clothing. The artist is unknown, and it is also not known if it has any spiritual connotations. Art such as this shows vigorously developing cultural environments, including the building of cities and development of writing, around the Southern [[Mesopotamia]] region in South West [[Iran]] and border regions of [[Iraq]] around the 3100–2900 B.C. The statue is on display at the [[Metropolitan Museum of Art]][http://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/329074 The Metropolitan Museum of Art] in the Ancient Near Eastern Art section. |
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