Three-footed bowl with ibex The use of bitumen as a sculpting - TopicsExpress



          

Three-footed bowl with ibex The use of bitumen as a sculpting material was an original feature of Susa, a large city in the Susian Plain, which was inhabited for period of six thousand years. In the early 2nd millennium BC, the city was very prosperous, as attested by the large villas belonging to land owners and the rich funerary furnishings found in sarcophagus tombs. The bitumen bowls that were deposited in these were considered luxury objects. louvre.fr/en/oeuvre-notices/three-footed-bowl-ibex
Posted on: Thu, 18 Jul 2013 15:33:51 +0000

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