Late Bronze Age Sculpture of a Bull, 1500 BCE - 1250 BCE
Bronze
1 x 1.375
Z.0403
Though the body is indistinct, the prominent horns on this small votive sculpture identify it as a bull. Since earliest antiquity, the sacrifice of a bull had been a gift...
Though the body is indistinct, the prominent horns on this small votive sculpture identify it as a bull. Since earliest antiquity, the sacrifice of a bull had been a gift to please the gods, an animal both majestic and strong, worthy of divine royalty. What wish--humble or grand--caused it to be given long ago? Surely if this bull charmed the gods as it pleases us today, then it must have brought its giver good luck.
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