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)
11961	30-12-28	(none)	(none)	Cylinder Seal. Green stone. 2 Heroes fighting a lion & a bull.
12079	(none)	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal. Lapis lazuli. Silver caps (fixed to seal by hollow bitumen stem) Heroes fighting bearded bulls. (with caps).
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.
14996	(none)	1935,0113.61	(none)	Clay figurine. Fragment of (forepart only) of a bull(?). Drab clay with black markings.
15325	(none)	1935,0113.63	(none)	Clay figurine. A pig(?) Crudely modeled by hand. [drawing 1:1]
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.
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]
15612	(none)	1930,1213.176	(none)	Clay figurine. TO painted ware. Fragment. With black paint on greenish drab clay. Fore part of buffalo. [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]
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.
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]
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.
6096	(none)	(none)	(none)	Cow? Baked clay. Drab. Legs fragmentary. Tail, ears and mouth chipped. B.
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.
6192	(none)	(none)	(none)	Boars head bead. White shell. [drawing]
6230	(none)	1927,0527.244	(none)	Clay cow. Baked. Drab. Legs broken. E. [drawing 1:1]
6255	(none)	(none)	B16306	Cylinder seal. Black hematite. Shamash with horned mitre and notched sword in hand steps on a crouching bull a worshipper brings a kid as an offering. The god Martu with a short club in hand, short garment and a round woolen turban is followed by a worshipper with clasped hands, and a servant. Two small figures - a bifrons with clasped hands and a nude servant with libation cone in hand. About BC 1900. E.
7519	(none)	1928,1009.468	(none)	Zebu. Unbaked clay. Species of buffaloid cattle. Legs missing. [drawing 1:1]
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
7656	(none)	(none)	B16865	Cylinder seal. Marble. Mottled grey and black. Slightly concave. Gilgamesh fighting rampant lion; Enkidu fighting rampant bull; lion and bull back to back. c. 2800BC.
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.
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]