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)
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]
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.
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.
7989	(none)	(none)	B16864	Cylinder seal. Black steatite with silver caps. Subject Gilgamesh and Eabana fighting bulls. (N.B.) part of the linen thread was preserved in the hole)
8325	(none)	(none)	B16802	Figurine of bull in lapis lazuli wearing a false beard. [drawing] 1:1 Style of the 1st Dynasty of Ur.
8513	(none)	(none)	B16869	Cylinder seal White shell, much decayed, but preserving an inscription in the upper register [drawing of inscription]
8993	(none)	(none)	B16875	Cylinder seal Dark greenish steatite. Very large with fine engraved scene: 3 human figures and 2 man-headed bulls crossed.
9064	(none)	(none)	B16898	Cylinder seal Lapis lazuli Silver core Gilgamesh and Enkidu fighting rampant lion and rampant bull respectively.
9183	(none)	(none)	B16854	Cylinder seal Lapis, with gold caps (the latter rather broken). Subject: Gilgamesh and Eabani.
9652	(none)	(none)	B16857	Cylinder seal Dark steatite A hero fighting a bull (or wild oryx)? and a lion and a bull fighting.
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.
10364	(none)	(none)	B16872	Cylinder Seal Greenish grey marble Hero: on either side a rampant bull and a rampant lion. Attributes: Crescent Moon, and star on two legged pole.
11112	(none)	(none)	B16880	Cylinder Seal. Lapis lazuli. Bird headed men fighting bearded bulls and gazelles. One hero wears a four pronged comb at back of head.
11222	(none)	(none)	B16745	Shell Plaque. half. Silhouetted: a half-human monster fighting with a bull. [drawing 1:1]
11566	30-12-14	(none)	(none)	Cylinder seal. Black steatite. 2 registers: above, 2 bulls & trees; below, 2 gazelles & trees.
11896	30-12-31	(none)	(none)	Cylinder Seal. Pale green calcite. (1 side decayed) human-headed bulls & heroes fighting.
11958	(none)	(none)	(none)	Cylinder Seal. White shell. Tree & buffalo of Mohenjo daro type.
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.