An ancient Hittite copper alloy head of a bull with long horns, outlined eyes, recessed for inlay, short snout and flaring nostrils; perhaps from a standard or a cult image.
Anatolia.
Ca. 18th – 16th century BC.
cf.: O. Muscarella, ed., Ladders to Heaven, Art Treasures form the Lands of the Bible, (Toronto, 1981), no. 125.
Formerly in the George Ortiz collection, Switzerland, prior to 1985.
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