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Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Middle Bronze Age Sculpture of a Ram, 1900 BCE - 1600 BCE
Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Middle Bronze Age Sculpture of a Ram, 1900 BCE - 1600 BCE
Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Middle Bronze Age Sculpture of a Ram, 1900 BCE - 1600 BCE

Middle Bronze Age Sculpture of a Ram, 1900 BCE - 1600 BCE

Terracotta
8.3 x 8.9 cm
3 1/4 x 3 1/2 in
P.0612
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Just as Abraham was about to sacrifice his son Isaac to god, an angel appeared to point out a ram whose horns were tangled in the bushes. Abraham gratefully sacrificed...
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Just as Abraham was about to sacrifice his son Isaac to god, an angel appeared to point out a ram whose horns were tangled in the bushes. Abraham gratefully sacrificed the animal instead. This magnificent, curly-horned votive--regal as the heavenly Aries--also dates from the age of the Biblical patriarchs, and was offered as a gift to god. Perhaps it commemorated the sacrifice of Isaac, an event which might have occurred within living memory of when this figure was made.
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