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Bronze Age Artefacts : Late Bronze Age Sculpture of a Bull
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Late Bronze Age Sculpture of a Bull - Z.0403
Origin: Beit Mirsim, Israel
Circa: 1500
BC
to 1250
BC
Dimensions:
1.375" (3.5cm) high
x 1" (2.5cm) wide
Catalogue: V1
Collection: Biblical
Medium: Bronze
$4,800.00
Location: United States
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Though the body is indistinct, the prominent horns on this small votive sculpture identify it as a bull. Since earliest antiquity, the sacrifice of a bull had been a gift to please the gods, an animal both majestic and strong, worthy of divine royalty. What wish--humble or grand--caused it to be given long ago? Surely if this bull charmed the gods as it pleases us today, then it must have brought its giver good luck.
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