Vessel or figurine in form of a bull

Bulls were very popular in Bronze Age and Iron Age Cyprus as they represented power and fertility. This bull is hollow, and it is uncertain whether it was made as a jug or as a statuette.

Object Summary

Accession Loan No.
31/1918/95
Category
Antiquities
Collection Class
Foreign archaeology
Collection Area Region
Southern Europe
Collector Excavator
Cobham, Claude Delaval
Material
potteryBase Ring ware
Common Name
vessel or figurine in form of a bull
Simple Name
vessel
Production Year Low
-1475
Production Year High
-1225

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rhyton in form of a bull