Copper Bull, the Glossary
The Copper Bull is a copper sculpture found at the site of Tell al-'Ubaid near the ancient city of Ur, now in southern Iraq, by Sir Leonard Woolley in 1923.[1]
Table of Contents
11 relations: Bitumen, British Museum, Gertrude Bell, Iraq, Leonard Woolley, London, Ninhursag, Penn Museum, Tell al-'Ubaid, Terence Mitchell, Ur.
- Archaeological discoveries in Iraq
- Sculptures of cattle
- Sumerian art and architecture
Bitumen
Bitumen is an immensely viscous constituent of petroleum.
British Museum
The British Museum is a public museum dedicated to human history, art and culture located in the Bloomsbury area of London.
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Gertrude Bell
Gertrude Margaret Lowthian Bell (14 July 1868 – 12 July 1926) was an English writer, traveller, political officer, administrator, and archaeologist.
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Iraq
Iraq, officially the Republic of Iraq, is a country in West Asia and a core country in the geopolitical region known as the Middle East.
Leonard Woolley
Sir Charles Leonard Woolley (17 April 1880 – 20 February 1960) was a British archaeologist best known for his excavations at Ur in Mesopotamia.
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London
London is the capital and largest city of both England and the United Kingdom, with a population of in.
Ninhursag
Ninḫursaĝ (𒀭𒎏𒄯𒊕 Ninḫarsang), sometimes transcribed Ninursag, Ninḫarsag, or Ninḫursaĝa, also known as Damgalnuna or Ninmah, was the ancient Sumerian mother goddess of the mountains, and one of the seven great deities of Sumer.
Penn Museum
Penn Museum, formerly known as The University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, is an archaeology and anthropology museum at the University of Pennsylvania.
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Tell al-'Ubaid
Tell al-'Ubaid (العبيد) is a low, relatively small tell (settlement mound) west of nearby Ur in southern Iraq's Dhi Qar Governorate.
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Terence Mitchell
Terence Croft Mitchell (17 June 1929 – 21 April 2019) was a British archaeologist, scholar and curator.
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Ur
Ur was an important Sumerian city-state in ancient Mesopotamia, located at the site of modern Tell el-Muqayyar (mound of bitumen) in Dhi Qar Governorate, southern Iraq.
See also
Archaeological discoveries in Iraq
- Antiochus cylinder
- Assur ostracon and tablets
- Assyrian lion weights
- Assyrian statue (BM 124963)
- Babylonian Map of the World
- Bassetki Statue
- Black Obelisk of Shalmaneser III
- Blau Monuments
- Bull Headed Lyre of Ur
- Complaint tablet to Ea-nāṣir
- Copper Bull
- Cyrus Cylinder
- Dynasty of Dunnum
- Enlil-bānī land grant kudurru
- Eridu Genesis
- Estate of Takil-ana-ilīšu kudurru
- Gudea cylinders
- IM 67118
- Lachish reliefs
- Land grant to Marduk-zākir-šumi kudurru
- Land grant to Ḫasardu kudurru
- Library of Ashurbanipal
- Lion Hunt of Ashurbanipal
- Lion of Babylon (statue)
- Lyres of Ur
- Mask of Warka
- Nebo-Sarsekim Tablet
- Nimrud Slab
- Nimrud Tablet K.3751
- Nimrud ivories
- Petit chien à bélière
- Ram in a Thicket
- Rassam cylinder
- Self-praise of Shulgi (Shulgi D)
- Standard of Ur
- Stela of Ashurnasirpal II
- Stela of Shamshi-Adad V
- Stele of the Vultures
- Tablet of Shamash
- Tell Asmar Hoard
- Tell al-'Ubaid Copper Lintel
- Tell al-Rimah stela
- Ur Box inscription
- Uruk Trough
- Ushi Narrative Tablet
- Vase of Entemena
- White Obelisk
Sculptures of cattle
- Big Bull, India
- Big Bulls
- Bull (sculpture)
- Bull Site
- Bull of Osuna
- Bulls of Guisando
- Bund Bull
- Celestial Sphere Woodrow Wilson Memorial
- Charging Bull
- Chicago Rising from the Lake
- Cimbrian Bull
- Concrete Cows
- Copper Bull
- CowParade
- Dancing Through Life (sculpture)
- Dragon Fountain, Copenhagen
- El-Amra clay model of cattle
- Farnese Bull
- Gefion Fountain
- Gladys the Swiss Dairy Cow
- Golden calf
- Kadıköy bull statue
- Kailasa Temple, Ellora
- Kneeling Bull with Vessel
- La yunta (sculpture)
- Minoan Bull-leaper
- Mo, Ni, Que
- Monolithic Bull, Andhra Pradesh
- Paul Bunyan and Babe the Blue Ox
- Pioneer Fountain
- Pisupo Lua Afe (Corned Beef 2000)
- Salem Sue
- Sculptures in Plaça de Catalunya
- Statue of Moses (University of Notre Dame)
- The Flight of Europa
- The Pioneer Mother Memorial
- Torito of Porcuna
- Touro (sculpture)
- Trees of Mystery
- Turra Coo
Sumerian art and architecture
- Ancient Mesopotamian units of measurement
- Ancient furniture
- Architecture of Mesopotamia
- Art of Mesopotamia
- Art of Uruk
- Copper Bull
- Giparu
- Guennol Lioness
- Investiture of Zimri-Lim
- Lamassu
- Mask of Warka
- Neo-Sumerian art
- Queen Puabi's headdress
- Ram in a Thicket
- Royal Cemetery at Ur
- Standard of Ur
- Statue of Ebih-Il
- Statue of Iddi-Ilum
- Statues of Gudea
- Tell Asmar Hoard
- Tell al-'Ubaid Copper Lintel
- Tummal
- Vase of Entemena
- Warka Vase
- Ziggurat
- Ziggurat of Ur
- Ziggurats
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copper_Bull
Also known as Copper Bull (Ubaid).