# Button-Based Situlas

- Date: 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
- Credit line: Norman O. Stone and Ella A. Stone Memorial Fund, and James Parmelee Fund
- Museum: [Cleveland Museum of Art](https://clevelandart.org/art/1960.35)
- Rights: [Public domain (CC0)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1960.35/1960.35_web.jpg
- Who can see it: Tweens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

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.