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Bull's Head Amulet   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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Title
Bull's Head Amulet
Description
English: In Mesopotamia, jewelry was both worn and offered in temples as gifts to the gods. Its purpose was often more functional than ornamental: pendants worn on the body served as talismans to ward off evil and to increase the wearer's power. Mesopotamian amulets depict a large range of animals native to the Near East, illustrated here by a bull's head.
Date circa 3000 BC
date QS:P571,-3000-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
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Medium carved stone
Dimensions length: 2.3 cm (0.9 in)
dimensions QS:P2043,2.38U174728
institution QS:P195,Q210081
Accession number
42.1458
Place of creation Mesopotamia
Object history
  • Sale, Sotheby and Co., London, November 26, 1968, lot 20
  • Walters Art Museum, 1968, by purchase
Exhibition history Jewelry - Ancient to Modern. The Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore. 1979-1980. Bedazzled: 5,000 Years of Jewelry from the Walters Art Museum. Frist Center for the Visual Arts, Nashville; The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota; The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore. 2006-2009. Bedazzled: 5,000 Years of Jewelry. El Paso Museum of Art, El Paso. 2010.
Credit line Museum purchase, 1968
Source Walters Art Museum: Home page  Info about artwork
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