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PROPERTY FROM THE LEO MILDENBERG COLLECTION OF ANCIENT ANIMALS
A WESTERN ASIATIC BRONZE BULL
ANATOLIAN OR SYRIAN CIRCA LATE 3RD-EARLY 2ND MILLENNIUM B.C.
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A WESTERN ASIATIC BRONZE BULL
ANATOLIAN OR SYRIAN
CIRCA LATE 3RD-EARLY 2ND MILLENNIUM B.C.
Originally part of a team pulling a four-wheeled cart, solid cast with a tubular body, flat legs and a thick neck, the broad head with forward-curving tapering horns and indented eyes, the truncated muzzle with a slit nose and a vertical perforation for attachment of the now-missing harness, the hooked tail formed of a separate wire inserted after casting
6¼ in. (15.8 cm.) long
ANATOLIAN OR SYRIAN
CIRCA LATE 3RD-EARLY 2ND MILLENNIUM B.C.
Originally part of a team pulling a four-wheeled cart, solid cast with a tubular body, flat legs and a thick neck, the broad head with forward-curving tapering horns and indented eyes, the truncated muzzle with a slit nose and a vertical perforation for attachment of the now-missing harness, the hooked tail formed of a separate wire inserted after casting
6¼ in. (15.8 cm.) long
出版
A.S. Walker, ed., Animals in Ancient Art from the Leo Mildenberg Collection, Part III, Mainz am Rhein, 1996, no. 270.