Bovine/Bull/Cow

This category includes mammals, usually portrayed as very muscular in the torso, with longer hoofed legs, and small horns that are pointed forward, and sometimes slightly curved. Bulls are male, Cows are female, Cows usually don't have horns, and sometimes have udders or are shown suckling young. Otherwise they are hard to distinguish.

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U Number	Museum Number (UPM Date Reg Number)	Museum Number (BM Registration Number)	Museum Number (UPM B-number)	Description (Catalog Card)
7617	(none)	(none)	B16877	Cylinder seal. Marble. White. 4 bulls rampant of which 3 have human heads, bearded and horned. On either side a rampant lion. Grotesque figure with himan body, animal's head, (possibly a donkey's head??) conical headdress and pig tail? grasps one lion by the tail. c. 3000BC
7658	(none)	(none)	B16890	Cylinder seal. Marble? White. Hero between two rampant bulls? On either side of bulls a rampant lion. Between the lions a post surmounted by a star.
11896	30-12-31	(none)	(none)	Cylinder Seal. Pale green calcite. (1 side decayed) human-headed bulls & heroes fighting.
6189	(none)	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal. Pink marble. Bel-Marduk holding two rampant bulls - crescent and star. Time of Assyrian influence about BC 800. B.
12100	(none)	(none)	(none)	Cylinder Seal. Shell, decayed. Rampant stags and bulls. Hopeless.
12691	30-12-46	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal. Shell. White. Poor cutting. Eagle in flight, antelopes? Bulls.
11889	30-12-7	(none)	(none)	Cylinder Seal. White shell (in poor condition) A man, a lion, a bull & a gazelle fighting.
11958	(none)	(none)	(none)	Cylinder Seal. White shell. Tree & buffalo of Mohenjo daro type.
15348A	(none)	1930,1213.334	(none)	Dried clay figurines. Animals (cattle) roughly hand-modeled.
15348D	(none)	1935,0113.66	(none)	Dried clay figurines. Animals (cattle) roughly hand-modeled.
8325	(none)	(none)	B16802	Figurine of bull in lapis lazuli wearing a false beard. [drawing] 1:1 Style of the 1st Dynasty of Ur.
15354D	31-16-945	(none)	(none)	Figurine. Fragment. Baked clay animal. Green clay with black bands. (A) Striped body, very long, of a tiger(?) head & forelegs missing. [1:2 drawing] (B) Hind quarters. [1:2 drawing] (C) Forepart of buffalo. [1:2 drawing] (D) Pig. [1:2 drawing]
11222	(none)	(none)	B16745	Shell Plaque. half. Silhouetted: a half-human monster fighting with a bull. [drawing 1:1]
16211	31-43-1	(none)	(none)	Stamp seal. Pink limestone. In the form of a recumbent calf; on the flat back a rough design of 2 animals done with drill-holes and engraved lines. This is an early Sumerian piece which is found ina Persian period grave, and must have been an antiquity. [drawing 1:1]
7914	(none)	1928,1009.474	(none)	Terracotta dog? Black lines painted down back and sides. Traces of harness? Projecting ridge over head and top of back and horizontal band round top of tail. Horizontal ridges below neck running across back and beneath belly. [drawing 1:1]
18097	(none)	1932,1008.255	(none)	Terracotta figurine. Bull. Hand modelled and painted with black on green clay, Al Obaid type.
18160	32-40-43	(none)	(none)	Terracotta figurine. Hand modelled of a humped bison (?): the horns both missing. [drawing]
(none)	(none)	(none)	B16879	Unknown
7519	(none)	1928,1009.468	(none)	Zebu. Unbaked clay. Species of buffaloid cattle. Legs missing. [drawing 1:1]
17887D	32-40-226	(none)	(none)	[A-E] Copper bull's head. Five examples. Cast in copper and originally attached to some wooden object (from which they have been broken away) by a pin passing through the neck. All of same type but differing in size and slightly in execution all of regular Al Obaid style all in good condition.
9776A	(none)	(none)	B16742	[A-L] Shell Plaques. Found in confusion and scattered in the soil (the filling of the shaft) 12 plaques with animals, of which 2 are broken. 4 1/2 others completely decayed. 7 white squares each with 5 blue dots. 3 black squares each with 5 white dots. 2 squares with rosettes. 9 pieces (strips) with eye pattern most of these have suffered by the decay of the shell. Also a quantity of narrow edging slips in mother-of-pearl, red stone and lapis.
18404A	33-35-332	(none)	(none)	[A-S] Clay jar sealing. Fragment of. With impressed designs, apparently of milking scene (not all from the same seal) and round topped huts.
(none)	30-12-56	(none)	(none)	[no catalog card from field]
(none)	30-12-545	(none)	(none)	[Unknown]
(none)	31-16-753ee	(none)	(none)	[Unknown]