Plaque with Striding Bull

721 BC - 705 BC
Bronze
Khorsabad
24.5 cm x 31.5 cm x 4.0 cm
A12467

Oriental Institute Museum

Artifact Description

Plaque with Striding Bull

This is a fragment of a bronze plaque that once decorated a wooden door in the Nabu Temple at Dur-Sharrukin (modern-day Khorsabad). The plaque, which depicts a bull striding to the left, would have been secured to the door using nails with bronze heads, some of which are still attached.

Collected by

Gordon Loud (in charge of excavations at Khorsabad)
Excavated by The Oriental Institute 1933-1934

Multimedia

The Ancient City of Khorsabad
Dr. Gil Stein, Director of the Oriental Institute, discusses the importance of the ancient capital city of Khorsabad in this video.

How Do We Care for Ancient Artifacts?
How do artifacts survive over time? Oriental Institute Museum conservator Laura D'Alessandro tells us how they are cared for in this video.

Suggested Readings

Parpola, Simo. Letters from Assyria and the West: The Correspondence of Sargon II, Part I. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press, 1987.

Reade, Julian. Assyrian Sculpture. London: The British Museum, 1983.

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

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