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Sem 1282
By kind permission of Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien
By kind permission of Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien
By kind permission of Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien
By kind permission of Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien
By kind permission of Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien
DEPOSIT INFORMATION
| Deposit | Wien, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Sem 1282 |
SUPPORT INFORMATION
| Support type | Artefact » Sculpture in the round » Part of animal body | ||||||
| Material | Bronze | ||||||
| Dimensions | h. 5, w. 2.23-2.27, th. 6.2, weight 96 g. | ||||||
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| Notes on support and decorations | Bronze protome of a bull, originally emerging from a handle of a lamp with elongated pear-shaped body, similar to BM 139621 and RES 3533. The animal is leaping; its anterior legs are lost, as well as the horns. The muzzle is well characterized with lateral protruding eyes, multiple skin folds and a triangular element – filled with wavy parallel lines (probably representing a tuft of hair) – between the horns. A tube-shaped element, with dense parallel notches (a snake?), surrounds the bull neck. |
ORIGIN AND PROVENANCE
| Modern site | Unknown |
| Ancient site | Unknown |
| Geographical area | Unknown |
| Country | Unknown |
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BIBLIOGRAPHY
| Daum 1988 a: 81 | Daum, Werner (ed.) 1988. Jemen. 3000 Jahre Kunst und Kultur des glücklichen Arabien. Innsbruck: Pinguin / Frankfurt: Umschau. |