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Definition of Bucrania

Bucrania
Bucranium Bu*cra"ni*um, n.; pl. L. Bucrania. [L., fr. Gr. ? ox head.] A sculptured ornament, representing an ox skull adorned with wreaths, etc.

Meaning of Bucrania from wikipedia

- Bucranium (pl. bucrania; from Latin būcrānium, from Ancient Gr**** βουκράνιον (boukránion) 'ox's head', referring to the skull of an ox) was a form of carved...
- flutes have flat tops. The frieze exhibits fruit festoons suspended between bucrania. Above each festoon has a rosette over its center. The cornice does not...
- knot, or held in the mouths of lions, or suspended across the tops of bucrania as in the Temple of Vesta at Tivoli. Detail of an Ancient Gr**** mosaic...
- monotones en camaïeu ("like cameos"), isolated medallions or vases or busts or bucrania or other motifs, suspended on swags of laurel or ribbon, with slender arabesques...
- Neolithic period, cattle skulls, also known as bucrania, were often placed alongside human burials. Bucrania were a status symbol, and they were used frequently...
- Three sides of a taurobolium altar showing bucrania and a sacrificial knife, with a dedication to the Great Idaean Mother of the Gods, from Lugdunum (Lyon)...
- monotones en camaïeu ("like cameos"), isolated medallions or vases or busts or bucrania or other motifs, suspended on swags of laurel or ribbon, with slender arabesques...
- in Anatolia: a single chamber cella with a terrazzo floor beneath which bucrania were found. In phase E, corresponding to the Uruk III period (c. 3200–3000 BC)...
- shaped vessel -- -- -- -- -- 6 Lion shaped vessel -- -- -- -- -- 7 Unknown Object -- -- ME -- -- 8 Bucrania -- -- -- -- -- 9 Uruk Vase -- -- -- -- --...
- semicircles. These vessels were found in graves in ****ociation with the few bucrania found. This jar shape and black semicircle decorated rim has also been...