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

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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.

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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

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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

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