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Bull Procession Cup

c. 3100–2900 BCE

Medium: gray limestone
Classification: Sculpture
Dimensions: Diameter: 7.7 cm (3 1/16 in.); Overall: 5.5 cm (2 3/16 in.)
Culture: Sumerian, Iraq
Museum: Cleveland Museum of Art, Egyptian and Ancient Near Eastern Art
Credit line: Purchase from the J. H. Wade 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

About this work

It was believed that the person who drank from a cup like this magically gained the fertility of the bulls carved on its surface.

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