Button-Based Situlas
900–700 BCE
- Medium
- bronze, repoussé, punched, incised
- Classification
- Metalwork
- Dimensions
- Diameter: 5.9 cm (2 5/16 in.); Overall: 13 cm (5 1/8 in.)
- Culture
- Iran, Luristan
- Museum
- Cleveland Museum of Art, Egyptian and Ancient Near Eastern Art
- Credit line
- Norman O. Stone and Ella A. Stone Memorial Fund, and James Parmelee Fund
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed
View at the Cleveland Museum of Art
About this 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.
