AN URARTIAN BRONZE BULL'S HEAD PROTOME, with short horns and incised eyes and mouth, shallow depressons for the nostrils, the forehead with triangular pendant decorated with incised crosshatching and terminating in tassles between the bull's eyes, the head moulded from a triangular sheet with rivets for attachment to the rim of a cauldron, part of the rim remains, late 8th-early 7th Century B.C. | Christie's

Lot 44

AN URARTIAN BRONZE BULL'S HEAD PROTOME, with short horns and incised eyes and mouth, shallow depressons for the nostrils, the forehead with triangular pendant decorated with incised crosshatching and terminating in tassles between the bull's eyes, the head moulded from a triangular sheet with rivets for attachment to the rim of a cauldron, part of the rim remains, late 8th-early 7th Century B.C.

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AN URARTIAN BRONZE BULL'S HEAD PROTOME, with short horns and incised eyes and mouth, shallow depressons for the nostrils, the forehead with triangular pendant decorated with incised crosshatching and terminating in tassles between the bull's eyes, the head moulded from a triangular sheet with rivets for attachment to the rim of a cauldron, part of the rim remains, late 8th-early 7th Century B.C.
4¾in. (12.1cm.) high

Lot Essay

Cf. S. Lloyd, Early Highland Peoples of Anatolia, London, 1967, pp. 111, 117 and 140-141, pls. 115 and 125; Leiden, Rijksmuseum van Oudheden, Treasures from Turkey, 1986, no. 140

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