File:Bull head Telloh Louvre AO2676.jpg

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English: Bull head, probably affixed to the sound-chest of a lyre.
Français : Tête de taureau, ayant sans doute orné la caisse de résonance d'une lyre.
Date 3rd millennium BC
date QS:P571,-2500-00-00T00:00:00Z/6
Medium copper, nacre and lapis lazuli
institution QS:P195,Q19675
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Mésopotamie, room 1a: La Mésopotamie du Néolithique à l'époque des Dynasties archaïques de Sumer. Richelieu, ground floor.
This work is part of the collections of the Louvre (Department of Near Eastern Antiquities).
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AO 2676
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excavated by Ernest de Sarzec. Place: Girsu.

1896: given by Sultan Abdul Hamid
References Musée du Louvre, Atlas database: entry 11403
Source/Photographer Marie-Lan Nguyen (2006)
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