Sacred Bull

Anatolian (Artist)

late 4th-3rd millennium BCE (Bronze Age)

bronze, silver inlay
(Ancient Near East )

Bulls with a silver triangle between their horns have been found in central Anatolian royal burials. The collar and holes for a nose ring suggest that the animal may have been harnessed to a god's chariot.

Provenance

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Joseph Brummer, Paris and New York, [date and mode of acquisition unknown] [with so-called Yugo-Slavian hoard], New York; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1927, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.

Exhibitions

1980	Undercover Stories in Art. The Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore.

Conservation

Date	Description	Narrative
6/7/1957	Treatment	cleaned
4/21/1967	Treatment	other
11/13/1972	Technical Report	other
1/29/1976	Treatment	cleaned; stabilized; other
12/20/1977	Examination	x-ray fluorescence
3/30/2011	Treatment	cleaned; stabilized; other

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Geographies

Turkey (Place of Origin)

Measurements

2 13/16 x 4 3/16 x 1 5/8 in. (7.2 x 10.6 x 4.1 cm)

Credit Line

Acquired by Henry Walters, 1927

Location in Museum

Centre Street: Second Floor: Ancient Near Eastern Art

Accession Number

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54.1671

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