Bucranium
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bucranium-161-15235526
title:
Bucranium
text:
Bucranium was a form of carved decoration commonly used in Classical architecture. The name is generally considered to originate with the practice of displaying garlanded, sacrificial oxen, whose heads were displayed on the walls of temples, a practice dating back to the sophisticated Neolithic site of Çatalhöyük in eastern Anatolia, where cattle skulls were overlaid with white plaster.
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Decorative stone carving of an ox skull
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bucranium
date created:
2005-08-29T09:15:55Z
date modified:
2024-08-27T12:13:08Z
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