Bovine/Bull/Cow
Depiction of a muscular horned animal.
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) |
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![]() | 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. |
![]() | 18160 | 32-40-43 | (none) | (none) | Terracotta figurine. Hand modelled of a humped bison (?): the horns both missing. [drawing] |
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. | |
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] | |
(none) | 31-16-956 | (none) | (none) | [Unknown] | |
(none) | 31-16-952 | (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) | 31-16-753p | (none) | (none) | [Unknown] | |
(none) | 31-16-753ii | (none) | (none) | [Unknown] | |
(none) | 31-16-753i | (none) | (none) | [Unknown] | |
(none) | 31-16-753hh | (none) | (none) | [Unknown] | |
(none) | 31-16-753h | (none) | (none) | [Unknown] | |
(none) | 31-16-753gg | (none) | (none) | [Unknown] | |
(none) | 31-16-753ee | (none) | (none) | [Unknown] | |
11889 | 30-12-7 | (none) | (none) | Cylinder Seal. White shell (in poor condition) A man, a lion, a bull & a gazelle fighting. | |
(none) | 30-12-56 | (none) | (none) | [no catalog card from field] | |
(none) | 30-12-545 | (none) | (none) | [Unknown] | |
11490B | 30-12-50 | (none) | (none) | Copper Pin & cylinder seal. Copper pin plain, tang head (tang) broken), to which was attached a small white shell cylinder seal with design of a palm tree on one side of which 2 rampant lions, on the other apparently a winged bull (?) the surface very much decayed. | |
12691 | 30-12-46 | (none) | (none) | Cylinder seal. Shell. White. Poor cutting. Eagle in flight, antelopes? Bulls. | |
11896 | 30-12-31 | (none) | (none) | Cylinder Seal. Pale green calcite. (1 side decayed) human-headed bulls & heroes fighting. | |
11961 | 30-12-28 | (none) | (none) | Cylinder Seal. Green stone. 2 Heroes fighting a lion & a bull. | |
11566 | 30-12-14 | (none) | (none) | Cylinder seal. Black steatite. 2 registers: above, 2 bulls & trees; below, 2 gazelles & trees. | |
![]() | 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] |
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