A rather sweet gold bull figurine from Bactria or Gandhara, 1stC BC; now in the Ashmolean Museum.pic.twitter.com/EPYIV8ptBt
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A rather sweet gold bull figurine from Bactria or Gandhara, 1stC BC; now in the Ashmolean Museum.pic.twitter.com/EPYIV8ptBt
A bull on one of the Rudston Roman mosaics, East Yorkshire; possibly copied from a North African pattern-book? http://museumshull.blogspot.com/2015/03/the-rudston-venus-mosaic.html?view=classic&m=1 …pic.twitter.com/0W9Cm1sCen
A lovely bull-headed bronze cosmetic-grinder, 1stC AD?, found Hockwold, Norfolk: http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/collection_object_details.aspx?objectId=812388&partId=1 …pic.twitter.com/1rVQfdUNJz
Childeric grave goods included also bulls heads of similar design Tournai grave found mid 1650s
Indeed! :)
Love this style!
Was this symbolic for Mithras? Asking for the bull god....
No. The Visigoths were Christian by then. They converted from Arianism to Catholicism just before the end of the 6th century.
Oh yes the arian controversy. Me forgets. Such a stupid thing to fight about. And I was raised catholic.
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