Button-Based Situlas, 900-700 BC. Iran, Luristan, 9th-7th Century BC. Bronze, repoussé, punched, incised; diameter: cm (2 5/16 in.); overall: 13 cm (5 1/8 in.). The metalworkers of Luristan provided the Assyrian empire with elaborate bronze ornaments and vessels. These two situla are decorated symmetrically---one with ibexes drinking from an overflowing water jar; the other, with sphinxes.

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