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Copper Bull
The Copper Bull is a sculpture in copper found near the ancient Sumerian city of Ur, now in southern Iraq, by Sir Leonard Woolley in 1923. The sculpture, which dates from about 2600 BCE, is now in the British Museum.〔 ==Discovery== The sculpture was found with a number of other artifacts at the base of a foundation in Tell al-`Ubaid which is close to the ancient city of Ur in southern Iraq.〔(Copper figure of a bull ), British Museum, accessed July 2010〕 The sculpture was found by Leonard Woolley who was working jointly for the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology and the British Museum.〔(Ellen Herscher, "At the Museums: Wonders of Ur ), ''Archeology'', Volume 53 Number 2, March/April 2000, retrieved July 2010〕 The foundation which hid the sculpture was a platform made from brick and mud which had originally supported a temple to the goddess Ninhursag. The bull sculpture had been crushed by the falling masonry of the damaged temple. Woolley found similar models of bulls but only this and one other were recovered in an intact state. Ninhursag was a goddess of the pastures, so it is appropriate that cows should be found around her temple; it was said that her milk sustained the kings.
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