This is a bronze furniture-fitting (probably of a stool) of a kneeling or a recumbent winged-bull. It was originally inlaid and gilded. There is a dowel for attachment at the lower surface. From Toprakkale, Eastern Anatolia, in modern-day Turkey. Urartian, late 8th century BCE. (The British Museum, London).
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Amin, O. S. M. (2018, November 29). Kneeling Winged-Bull from Urartu. World History Encyclopedia. https://www.worldhistory.org/image/9547/kneeling-winged-bull-from-urartu/
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Amin, Osama Shukir Muhammed. "Kneeling Winged-Bull from Urartu." World History Encyclopedia, November 29, 2018. https://www.worldhistory.org/image/9547/kneeling-winged-bull-from-urartu/.
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Amin, Osama Shukir Muhammed. "Kneeling Winged-Bull from Urartu." World History Encyclopedia, 29 Nov 2018, https://www.worldhistory.org/image/9547/kneeling-winged-bull-from-urartu/.
