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

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rhyton in the form of a bull