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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Object U Number Museum Number (UPM Date Reg Number) Museum Number (BM Registration Number) Museum Number (UPM B-number) Description (Catalog Card)
(none) 31-16-753p (none) (none) [Unknown]
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]
(none) 31-16-952 (none) (none) [Unknown]
(none) 31-16-956 (none) (none) [Unknown]
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.
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.
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