Plaque with Bull-Men
1800 BC - 1600 BC
Clay
Original Site Unknown
9.3 cm x 7.0 cm x 0.5 cm
A9337
Clay
Original Site Unknown
9.3 cm x 7.0 cm x 0.5 cm
A9337
Oriental Institute Museum
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.