Bull head, Bahrain National Museum, Manama, Bahrain

Bull head, copper, 2500 BC, excavated from the Barbar Temple II, in the Bahrain National Museum, designed by Krohn and Hartvig Rasmussen, inaugurated December 1988 by Amir Shaikh Isa Bin Salman Al-Khalifa, in Manama, Bahrain. The head was discovered as part of a wooden box of a musical harp, used in religious ceremonies, a common motif in both Mesopotamian and Dilmun cultures. The museum houses cultural and archaeological collections covering 6000 years of history, with rooms entitled Burial Mounds, Dilmun, Tylos and Islam, Customs and Traditions, Traditional Trades and Crafts, and Documents and Manuscripts. Picture by Manuel Cohen

Picture No

13441988

Media ID

45127381

Size

4724px x 7087px (4.1MB)

Credit

Manuel Cohen / Mary Evans

Source

Photograph by Manuel Cohen