id: 136457 accession number: 1960.35.1 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1960.35.1 updated: 2022-01-04 16:06:57.656000 Button-Based Situla, 900-700 BC. Iran, Luristan, 9th-7th Century BC. Bronze, repoussé, punched, incised; diameter: 5.9 cm (2 5/16 in.); overall: 13 cm (5 1/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Norman O. Stone and Ella A. Stone Memorial Fund, and James Parmelee Fund 1960.35.1 title: Button-Based Situla title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 900-700 BC creation date earliest: -900 creation date latest: -700 current location: 102A Ancient Near East creditline: Norman O. Stone and Ella A. Stone Memorial Fund, and James Parmelee Fund copyright: --- culture: Iran, Luristan, 9th-7th Century BC technique: bronze, repoussé, punched, incised department: Egyptian and Ancient Near Eastern Art collection: Near Eastern Art type: Metalwork find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS --- measurements: Diameter: 5.9 cm (2 5/16 in.); Overall: 13 cm (5 1/8 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Year in Review - Nineteen Hundred Sixty opening date: 1960-11-30T05:00:00 Year in Review - Nineteen Hundred Sixty. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (November 30, 1960-January 1, 1961). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: The metalworkers of Luristan provided the Assyrian empire with elaborate bronze ornaments and vessels. These two situla are decorated symmetrically---one with ibexes drinking from an overflowing water jar; the other, with sphinxes. --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1960.35.1/1960.35.1_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1960.35.1/1960.35.1_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1960.35.1/1960.35.1_full.tif