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This limestone wall-relief block depicts a bull-headed god; the god has a human body and looks to the right side. He is standing between parts of two other partially shown figures. The background wall was left rough. From...

This fragment of a human-headed winged-bull, from Tiglath-pileser III's palace, is carved in low-relief like a wall panel. There is a marked contrast with the colossal figures in very high relief, of both earlier and later...

A Roman marble relief depicting Mithras sacrificing a bull. From the Esquiline, Rome, date unknown. (Vatican Museums, Rome)

Statue of tauroctony depicting Mithras about to kill the bull, found in situ resting on a masonry base in the Mithraneum of the Baths of Mithras, 1st century CE, Ostia Antica (Italy).

This object is an ivory furniture inlay depicting a lion and bull in combat. It was excavated from Samaria and dates to the Iron Age II (9th–8th Century BCE). (The Israel Museum, Jerusalem) Copyright of The Israel...

During the Late Bronze Age, the trade contacts established with Cyprus in the preceding period were intensified. This type of bull was very popular in the Levant, either as ornaments or perhaps as feeding...

This limestone statue of a bull comes from Osuna (Seville), Spain. It dates from the late 5th century CE. It was originally abutted to a funerary monument. Bulls were protectors of tombs, symbols of masculinity, and they were...

This bronze spout was shaped like a bull's head. The horns are curved and there is an ornamented forelock. From Urmia, north-western Iran. Urartian, 8th to 7th century BCE. (The British Museum, London).

An exquisitely carved plaque of a supine bull. Note the black burn mark. Probably, this was part of a group which once supported an ivory tray. Neo-Assyrian period, 9th-7th centuries BCE. From Nimrud, Mesopotamia, Iraq...

This bronze bull was probably part of a piece of furniture. 9th to 7th century BCE. From Sam'al/Zincirli, modern-day Southern Turkey. (Pergamon Museum, Berlin)