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Title: Beaker with archer and bull
Period: Iron Age II
Date: ca. 10th–9th century BCE
Geography: Western Iran
Culture: Iran
Medium: Bronze
Dimensions: 5 3/16 × 2 3/8 × 2 1/4 in. (13.2 × 6 × 5.7 cm)
Credit Line: Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1948
Accession Number: 48.178.1
“Exhibition of Six Thousand Years of Persian Art.” The American Institute of Iranian Art and Archaeology, New York, April 24, 1940–July 1, 1940.
“Art of the Ancient Near East.” The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, March 4, 1949–September 5, 1949.
"Epic Iran." The Victoria and Albert Museum, London, May 29, 2021–September 12, 2021.
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