Frieze fragment, showing a bull, from the temple at Al-Ubaid

Terms of use

These images are provided for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons License (BY-NC-ND). To license a high resolution version, please contact our image library who will discuss fees, terms and waivers.

Download this image

Creative commons explained - what it means, how you can use our's and other people's content.

Architectural element. Frieze fragment, showing a bull, from the temple at Al-Ubaid. Production Place/Find Spot: Temple of Ninhursag, Tell al-Ubaid Iraq. Copper alloy borde, shale tessera, limestone bull, length 0.215 m, width 0.19 m, circa 2600 B.C. — 2500 B.C. Reign of Mes-Anapada, 1st Dynasty of Ur.

Image data

Accession Number: ANE.9.1948
Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Aperture: f/22.0
Focal length: 80
Camera: Hasselblad H4D-31
Photographer name: Michael Jones
Image height: 1025 pixels
Image width: 932 pixels
Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.4 (Windows)
Filesize: 699.17kB
Exposure time: 1/20
ISO Speed: 100
Fnumber: 22/1

Key words

Al-Ubaid animal animals antiquity architectural element BC bronze bulls cattle copper copper alloy cows First Dynasty of Ur Fitz_ANT fragment frieze horned horns Iraqi limestone Mesopotamian mosaic shale Summerian Tell al-Ubaid tessera

Citation for print

This page can be cited in the Harvard Bibliographic style using the text below:


            The Fitzwilliam Museum (2024)
            "Frieze fragment, showing a bull, from the temple at Al-Ubaid"
            Web page available at: https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/id/image/media-2956453676 Accessed: 2024-12-19 08:11:33

Citation for Wikipedia

To cite this page on Wikipedia you can use this code snippet:


            {{cite web|url=https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/id/image/media-2956453676
            |title=Frieze fragment, showing a bull, from the temple at Al-Ubaid
            |author=The Fitzwilliam Museum|accessdate=2024-12-19 08:11:33|publisher=The
            University of Cambridge}}

API call for this record

To call these data via our API (remember this needs to be authenticated) you can use this code snippet:

https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/api/v1/images/media-201329

Bootstrap HTML code for reuse

To use this as a simple code embed, copy this string:

<div class="text-center">
    <figure class="figure">
        <img src="https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/ant/ant46/ane_9_1948_1_201702_mfj22_dc2.jpg"
        alt="Frieze"
        class="img-fluid" />
        <figcaption class="figure-caption text-info">Frieze fragment, showing a bull, from the temple at Al-Ubaid</figcaption>
    </figure>
</div>