Vessel in the form of a bull
Bulls were very popular in Bronze Age and Iron Age Cyprus as they were thought to represent 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.
- 31/1918/96
- Category
- Antiquities
- Collection Class
- Foreign archaeology
- Collection Area Region
- Southern Europe
- Collector Excavator
- Cobham, Claude Delaval
- Material
- potteryBase Ring ware II
- Common Name
- vessel in the form of a bull
- Simple Name
- vessel
- Production Year Low
- -1450
- Production Year High
- -1200