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Historical Archive: Bulls, Calves, Cows, and Oxen See also see Nativity, grouped evangelists, and Saint Luke. bull's head: copper, mother of pearl, lapis lazuli; mid 3rd millennium BCE Tello (Girsu), Louvre AO 2676. For another view see Louvre. lyre/harp, Ur c.2550-2450 BCE, Penn B17694A/B, which has its own page limestone game board with bulls from Balawat (Imgur Enlil; Iraq), early 1st millennium BCE, Louvre AO 14049 bis Neo-Elamite rhyton in the form of a zebu bull, earthenware, from Amlash (Iran) c.1000-800 BCE, IMA 75.301. For another view see IMA. bull, top? belt plaque, cast bronze, late 1st millennium BCE, SF 1952.48. For profile view see SF. votive cow from Veii, ceramic, 3rd-2nd c. BCE Italy, KM 0000.00.1771 2 cattle, green plasma intaglio (chalcedony), late 1st c. BCE-mid 1st c. CE, MStA. For other views see MStA. Hercules and the Cretan bull, ivory, probably 1st c., BM 1814/7-4/1652 Celtic gold arm band from Transylvania (Roman period?), HNM Taurus, lower left: unfinished Zodiac, marble, 2nd c. Roman, SMB AS SK1050. For oblique view see Berlin. funerary monument of Flavia Usiau: ox-drawn cart, 2nd half of 2nd c., Tác-Gorsium (Roman Herculia). This work has its own page. Mithras relief from Fiano Romano: Mithras and the Bull, 2nd or 3rd c., marble, Louvre MND 1911 Mithras fr. City of London temple, marble, late 2nd-early 3rd c., MoL A16933 Mithras and the Bull from Dormagen, c.200 AD, limestone, RLM ox-cart: pastoral sarcophagus with lid from Via Prenestina (Christian?), painted and gilt, late 3rd/early 4th c., Vat 31485 (ex 150). This work has its own page. Mithras and the Bull from Gimmeldingen, sandstone?, 325, HMP. For view with inscription see For another view see HMP. bovine, upper left below antelope: hunt, Italy? c.350-400, bronze/silver/copper, Louvre Br 3448/MND 889. For details see Louvre. Junius Bassus sarcophagus, c.359, marble, Vat Tesoro 31529.3.1-3, which has its own page ox-cart: Shepherd sarcophagus from Catacomb of Praetextatus (Three Shepherds Sarcophagus; Christian?), marble c.370-400, Vat 31554 (ex 191A). This work has its own page. Scenes from the life of St. Paul, and Adam in Paradise, diptych c.400, Bargello, Florence bull, center top: Cathedra of Maximian, ivory, 546-56, RavArchMus, which has its own page dream of Pharaoh: Cathedra of Maximian, ivory, 546-56, RavArchMus, which has its own page "The Burghead Bull", Pictish stone slab from Burghead, Morayshire, Grampian, Scotland, 7th c., BM MME 1861,10-24,1 bull on square capital, oolithic limestone, 9th to 10th c., Brescia Museum of Santa Giulia. For frontal view see Brescia. Taurus: Apostles casket, ivory c.870, BNM MA 174-176, which has its own page Veroli Casket, ivory and bone, mid to late 10th c., V&A 216-1865. This work has its own page with another bull. lion attacking steer, attacked by gryphon: Rosette Casket, wood/ivory/bone, Italo-Byzantine, 11th-12th c., Arezzo MS, which has its own page center: Last Judgment, tempera, Nicholas and Johannes 1061-71, Vat 40526, which has its own page sculpture 1173-78, Pisa campanile, which has its own page, in cathedral complex hunting frieze: hare, dog; bull, dog, hunter... west façade completed by 1180, Pisa cathedral, which has its own pages Sainte Chapelle stained glass: possessions of Job taken, 13th c. glass in 15th c. window, Cluny DS 1896 bis plowing, second down: portal sculpture early 13th c., Pisa baptistery, which has its own page, in cathedral complex lions attacking bovine, center: reliquary fr. Filefjell, copper gilt, Norway 1230-50, Bergen MA 52, which has its own page Creation mosaic (retouched) c.1270-75, Baptistery of St. John, Florence. This work has its own pages. Giovanni Pisano pulpit 1302-10, which has its own page, in Pisa cathedral Creation: Kloster Wienhausen nuns' choir, painted c.1335, which has its own page herds of Jacob: Baptistery, cathedral of Padua, 1376 frescoes: Giusto de' Menabuoi. This work has its own pages. left center bottom: front of an oak chest with heraldic and fantastic beasts, Lower Saxony c.1380, KGM 1884,1688 Rape of Europa; Ganymede, 16th c. Majolica platter (coppa amatoria), shop of Girolamo di Lanfranco dalle Gabicce, Arezzo MS 14591 horned cow: Joachim Engelhart von Rindtorff (d. 1667), epitaph or poss. marker for 1621 donation, brass, HildMus G45. For full work see Hildesheim funerary monuments. battle between lion and zebu bull (left): covered cup with allegory of Africa, zebu horn, circle of Georg Pfründt c.1680, KGM K 3429, which has its own page bottom: Zaharija Orfelin, Serbian perpetual calendar, Vienna 1783, Belgrade MAA 608. For full opening see Belgrade MAA. Luigi Pichler, Farnese Bull c.1798-1818, glass intaglio, UCh 1989.5. This work has its own page.