Sunday, 23 October 2022

{Bull Cults [and Meaning in Art]}[26th November 1990]

[Redbook8:120][19901126:1735c]{Bull Cults [and Meaning in Art]}[26th November 1990]


19901126.1735

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‘An important question is the extent to which the presence of symbols, such as the bucranium (a sculptured ornament representing an ox skull), can be considered as expressions of specific religious ideas, such as a bull cult, and, indeed, how much the decoration was intended to convey meaning at all.’

E[ncyclopaedia] B[ritannica] 21:911 (*)



*[(‘Iraq’) – See source note to extract in last previous entry]



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