Urartu was once known as a powerful kingdom, involved with numerous warfares with the Assyrian Empire in the first millennium B.C. It extended in the area between the Black sea and the Caspian sea, Approximately in the area occupied by today’s Armenia. Urartian bronze artworks are credited for their abstract yet aesthetic forms and realistic depictions on zoomorphic representations. Motifs of bulls were favoured by local artists, which possibly suggests that bulls were depicted as a conventional companion of the worshipped deities, symbolising power and divinity within traditional Urartian religious realm.
