Plate with reclining zebu, Early–Middle Bronze Age, ca. late 3rd–early 2nd millennium B.C., Eastern Iran, Copper alloy, Diameter: 22.9 cm (9 in.), Metalwork-Vessels, Made from a sheet of copper alloy with a rim that has now broken away, this shallow plate is decorated at the center with an image of a zebu, a breed of cattle from southwestern Asia. The zebu’s distinctive hump and upraised curved horns are clearly visible as the recumbent animal turns to face its rump and arched tail
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Plate, reclining zebu, Early–Middle Bronze Age, ca, late 3rd–early 2nd millennium B.C, Eastern Iran, Copper alloy, Diameter, 22.9 cm, 9, Metalwork-Vessels, sheet, copper, rim, now broken away, shallow plate, decorated, center, image, zebu, breed, cattle, southwestern Asia, distinctive, hump, upraised curved, horns, visible, recumbent animal, turns, face, rump, arched tail
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