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 | ||||||
| Measures | 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. |