Bull Standard

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Artist
Name	Unknown
Basic Info
Period	Bronze Age, Early
Created in	Ancient & Byzantine World, Asia, Anatolia
Century	3rd millennium BCE
Culture	Near Eastern
Dimensions	16.2 cm (6 3/8 in.)
Harvard Museum
Department	Department of Ancient and Byzantine Art & Numismatics
Division	Asian and Mediterranean Art
Contact	am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu

TechnicalDetails

Chemical Composition

Technical Observations

This figure is so highly mineralized and encrusted with gray burial accretions that it is difficult to say much about its method of manufacture other than that its shape suggests that it is solid, was modeled in wax, and was cast in one piece by the lost-wax process. The metal base below the legs could have served as a casting cup. Nothing can be said about the figure’s original surface. Some of the large green corrosion pustules have cracked and broken, revealing cupritic red mineral formations below them. 
 
Francesca G. Bewer (submitted 2012)

Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Purchase through the generosity of Roy W. Lennox, David N. Silich, and the Marian H. Phinney Fund