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Hump-backed pottery bull, Amlash culture, from the Marlik region, north-west Iran, early 1st millennium BC. This vessel belongs to the Amlash culture of Gilan province in north-west Iran, one of the most distinctive Iranian cultures of the late second and early first millennia BC. This type of vessel, in the form of a hump-backed bull may have had a ceremonial function, although they were certainly also placed in graves. Examples were excavated at Marlik Tepe, one of the richest cemeteries of the region. Here fifty-three intact tombs were excavated in 1961-62. Thirty-three burnished zoomorphic vessels (that is, in animal form) were excavated, and these were in the form of not only of hump-backed bulls but also stags, rams, horses or donkeys and even a leopard. These containers were clearly intended as pourers, but their exact function remains uncertain.
ANE, 132973

Location British Museum/London/Great Britain

Unique Identifier ART201334

Type Image

Purpose Public

Size 1600px × 1081px

Photo Credit Erich Lessing / Art Resource, NY

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