Shallow bronze bowl with engraved decoration of sphinxes

Details

• Title

  Shallow bronze bowl with engraved decoration of sphinxes

• Associated place

  Asia › Iran (North) (place of creation)

• Date

  8th - 7th century BC (800 - 601 BC)

• Material and technique

  copper alloy

• Object type

  container › vessel › bowl

• Dimensions

  16.5 cm (diameter)
  3.5 cm (height)

• No. of items

  1

• Credit line

  Purchased with the assistance of James Bomford, the MLA/V&A Purchase Grant Fund, the Friends of the Ashmolean Museum, and other benefactors, 1971.

• Museum location

  not on display

• Museum department

  Antiquities

• Accession no.

  AN1971.956

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