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The plating of the bull's head had collapsed and torn once the wooden core had deteriorated. The bitumen of the front panel had been pulverized, dislodging the shell inlay. Both were originally restored at the British Museum. When they arrived at the Penn Museum a new sound box was created, and painted by watercolorist M. L. Baker. [3]
Below the head is a front panel made of shell inlay set into bitumen. [14] This panel depicts a figure holding onto a bull's horns above, and animals acting as humans below. The bull head itself likely represents the sun god Utu, who was thought to be able to descend into the underworld. [5] The lyre is held in the Penn Museum in Philadelphia.
The Penn Museum is an archaeology and anthropology museum at the University of Pennsylvania. It is located on Penn's campus in the University City neighborhood of Philadelphia, at the intersection of 33rd and South Streets. [ 1 ]
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William Rush's Water Nymph and Bittern (1809) is at center. Philadelphia suffered multiple yellow fever epidemics in the 1790s. The Philadelphia Watering Committee, formally the Joint Committee on Bringing Water to the City, was founded in 1797–98 with the mission of constructing a public water system to combat the disease. [3]
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Head of the horse of Selene, which inspired Fiddian-Green, with the Elgin Marbles in the British Museum. Born in Ireland, [3] Fiddian-Green was educated at Eton College.Later, as a foundation-course student at Chelsea College of Arts he was sent on a visit to the British Museum to seek inspiration, [2] and chanced upon a carving of horse's head, the horse of Selene, [4] in the Elgin Marbles ...
This isn't the first time New Jersey residents had to wrangle a bull into place. In 2006, an urban cowboy from the farms of South Africa corralled and lassoed a 600-pound bull running loose in Newark.