Composite Lion and Bull
1500–1000 BCE
- Medium
- bronze, cast
- Classification
- Sculpture
- Dimensions
- Overall: 11.4 x 9.7 x 14.8 cm (4 1/2 x 3 13/16 x 5 13/16 in.)
- Culture
- Iran
- Museum
- Cleveland Museum of Art, Egyptian and Ancient Near Eastern Art
- Credit line
- John L. Severance Fund
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Little Ones profiles and older: it shows gentle subjects for the very young. How works are placed
View at the Cleveland Museum of Art
About this work
Combining the strength of the lion and the fertility of the bull, this creature must have served as an object of worship in a temple or shrine.
