Yellow Gold Bowl. Tapa Fullol (also Khosh Tapa), Baghlan Province.

1970
Height: 5.5 cm. 11.6? Fragment of a yellow gold bowl with rounded base engraved with bearded bulls, a popular motif at Mesopotamian (Iraq/Syria) sites, such as the Royal Cemetery of Ur, during this same period. The five gold and twelve silver vessels had been cut into nineteen fragments for sale to goldsmiths and silversmiths before they were retrieved fragments for sale to goldsmiths and silversmiths before they were retrieved by museum staff, but the gold fragments skill weighed 940 grams and the silver 1,922 grams, or a total of almost four kilos.
Photo: Louis Dupree

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Image Size: 6277x4238 / 7.1MB; 1970 Afghanistan Baghlan Tapa Fullol Khosh Tapa Yellow Gold Bowl Height: 5.5 cm Bearded Bulls Mesopotamian Iraq/Syria Sites Louis Dupree Slide LD 1970 01894
Contained in galleries: NATIONAL MUSEUM I - BCE (Before Common Era)

1970<br />
Height: 5.5 cm. 11.6? Fragment of a yellow gold bowl with rounded base engraved with bearded bulls, a popular motif at Mesopotamian (Iraq/Syria) sites, such as the Royal Cemetery of Ur, during this same period. The five gold and twelve silver vessels had been cut into nineteen fragments for sale to goldsmiths and silversmiths before they were retrieved fragments for sale to goldsmiths and silversmiths before they were retrieved by museum staff, but the gold fragments skill weighed 940 grams and the silver 1,922 grams, or a total of almost four kilos. <br />
Photo: Louis Dupree