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The bushel with ibex motifs, also known as the beaker with ibex motifs, is a prehistoric pottery artifact originating from Susa, an ancient city in the Near East located in modern-day Iran. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] This piece of art is believed to have been created during the Susa I period , between 4200 and 3500 BCE. [ 1 ]
The Wessex/Middle Rhine gold discs bearing "wheel and cross" motifs that were probably sewn to garments, presumably to indicate status and reminiscent of racquet headed pins found in Eastern Europe, [138] enjoy a general distribution throughout the country, however, never in direct association with beakers.
Nearly two thousand pots were recovered from the cemetery and now, most of them now are located in the Louvre; one such vessel is the Bushel with ibex motifs. The vessels found are eloquent testimony to the artistic and technical achievements of their makers, and they hold clues about the organization of the society that commissioned them. [3]
The Ubaid period saw the first depictions of ibex-headed and bird-headed humans. [38] ... pendant seal and modern impression with quadrupeds motif from northern ...
The Funnel(-neck-)beaker culture, in short TRB or TBK (German: Trichter(-rand-)becherkultur, Dutch: Trechterbekercultuur; Danish: Tragtbægerkultur; c. 4300–2800 BCE), was an archaeological culture in north-central Europe.
A common motif in ancient Middle Eastern art contains a sacred tree, often the Tree of Life, flanked on each side by an ibex. This motif is present across the region, from Iran and Mesopotamia to Arabia and the Horn of Africa. [123] [124] [125] Assyrian travelers brought bronze artwork bearing the motif as far as Olympia, Greece. [126]
The appearance of the Hedwig beakers resembles rock crystal, or quartz, and they are made of soda ash glass, which is composed of plant ash and quartz sand. [9] Although no two look exactly alike, all have a similar conical shape, thick walls, and wheel-cut ornament. [10]
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