A rare Mesapotamian limestone figure of a recumbant bull, early Bronze age, mid-3rd millenium B.C., the beard possible added later, formerly with inlaid eyes, 10cm. long x 7.8cm. highProvenance: Private collection, 1980’s.For a similar example see the Akkadian Kusarikkum figures illustrated in J. Aruz, Art of the First Cities: The Third Millenium BC from the Mediterranean to the Indus, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 2003, no. 111 and 157a.Please refer to department for condition report