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Bucranium
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Bu`cra´ni`um
n.1.A sculptured ornament, representing an ox skull adorned with wreaths, etc.
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Treatment of Bos skulls is attested to at the MPPNB site of Tel Halula, also on the middle Euphrates in northern Syria (Molist-Montana 1996; Sana-Segui & Molist-Montana 2002), while at Dja'de on the Euphrates, Coqueugniot (2000) described a Bos bucrania which was found under a bench and in close proximity to the 'Maison des Morts' which contained some 59 human skeletons.
Funerals and feasts during the Pre-Pottery Neolithic B of the Near ... by Goring-Morris, Nigel; Horwitz, Liora Kolska / Antiquity
Cattle horns have symbolic significance in many contemporary and past cultures from prehistoric times onwards and in many parts of the world: for example, cattle bucrania were placed around tumuli in prehistoric Sudan (Grant 2001) and aurochs horns and bucrania in temple contexts in Bronze Age Syria (Vila 1993).
The aurochs, nature worship and exploitation in eastern Gaul by Grant, Annie; Sauer, Eberhard / Antiquity
It was marked by the appearance of female figurines and by the placement in houses of aurochs bucrania, both themes that recur in later contexts such as Catalhoyuk.
Editorial by Stoddart, Simon; Malone, Caroline / Antiquity
 
 
 
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