Sacred Bull

late 4th-3rd millennium BCE (Bronze Age)

10.6 cm 7.2 cm 4.1 cm

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Bulls with a silver triangle between their horns have been found in central Anatolian royal burials. The collar and holes for a nose ring suggest that the animal may have been harnessed to a god's chariot.

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Joseph Brummer, Paris and New York, [date and mode of acquisition unknown] [with so-called Yugo-Slavian hoard], New York; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1927, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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