Plaque with Bull-Men

1800 BC - 1600 BC
Clay
Original Site Unknown
9.3 cm x 7.0 cm x 0.5 cm
A9337

Oriental Institute Museum

Artifact Description

Plaque with Bull-Men

This clay plaque was made from a mold. It depicts two bull-men flanking the trunk of a palm tree surmounted by a sun disk. Both the bull-men and the sun disk are associated with the sun god, Shamash.

Collected by

Henri Frankfort, Field Director of the Iraq Expedition
Purchased 1930

Suggested Readings

Black, Jeremy and Anthony Green. Gods, Demons, and Symbols of Ancient Mesopotamia: An Illustrated Dictionary. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1992.

Frankfort, H. and H.A., John A. Wilson, and Thorkild Jacobsen. Before Philosophy: The Intellectual Adventure of Ancient Man. Baltimore: Penguin Books, 1946.

Roaf, Michael. Cultural Atlas of Mesopotamia and the Ancient Near East. New York: Facts on File, 1990.

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