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Capital with kneeling bull protomes and double volutes

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Title/Caption	Capital with kneeling bull protomes and double volutes
Variant Title/Caption	Colossal capital with kneeling bulls
Larger Work/Entity	Apadana (reception hall) of Darius I, Susa
Site/Creative Center	Susa [Shush] (Iran)
Date of Work	ca. 510 BCE
Description of View	Bulls from front
Notes	From the reception hall (apadana) of the palace of Darius I at Susa. Originally the 36 columns of the hall stood 21 metres in height. [The capital in the Louvre was reconstructed from fragments of several columns, discovered by Marcel Dieulafoy during his excavations of 1884-1886.]
Technique/Process	architectural sculpture
Materials/Medium	limestone
Period	Ancient Persian
Century	6th Century BCE
Style of Work	Achaemenid Persian
Location.Current Site/City & Country	Paris (France)
Location.Current Repository	Musee du Louvre
Repository Notes	Inventory No. AOD 1
Subject	Sculpture, Mesopotamian Sculpture, Persian Architecture, Persian Sculpture, Achaemenid Royal palaces Halls (interior spaces) Apadanas Capitals (column components) Protomai capitals Animals Bulls
Publisher	Saskia Ltd. Cultural Documentation
Publisher.Location	Freeport, Maine (United States)
Credit Line	(C) Dr. Ronald V. Wiedenhoeft
Reference Number	Saskia Jic-0103
Collection Title	Sculpture (Art and Art History Department images)
Collection Information	Collection administered by Visual Resources manager, Architecture Library (402) 472-1193
Copyright Information	http://contentdm.unl.edu/ah_copyright.html