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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...
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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...
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Neolithic period,
cattle skulls, also
known as
bucrania, were
often placed alongside human burials.
Bucrania were a
status symbol, and they were used frequently...
- 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...
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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)...
- 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)...
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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...
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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...
- the so-called
Italia relief panel of the Ara Pacis,
which is
framed by
bucrania (ornamental ox heads) and
motifs of
vegetative and
animal fertility and...
- she was the
consort of
Poseidon at Pylos. She is
mentioned together with
bucrania in
decorated jugs and he was ****ociated with the
animals and especially...
