QUICK FACTS
Name: Kneeling Bull
What it is: A silver human-animal hybrid statuette
Where it is from: Ancient Elam, southwestern Iran
When it was made: 3100 to 2900 B.C.
This 5,000-year-old silver figurine depicts a bull kneeling in a human-like pose and holding a spouted vessel. It was made in southern Mesopotamia by someone from the Proto-Elamite culture, the oldest civilization in Iran, and was likely used in a ritual or ceremony.
