Arkeonews
Posted on 08/28/2022 7:29:39 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
A rare Late Neolithic Seal was discovered during the 2022 excavations of the Domuztepe Mound (Domuztepe Höyük), located on the Narlı Plain in the southern part of Kahramanmaraş province in Turkey’s Mediterranean Region.
Domuztepe, a Late Neolithic settlement (7000-5400 BC), is located in the Türkoğlu district of Kahramanmaraş...
Two animal heads with horns, made with their mouths facing each other with the “mirroring” (antithetic) method, draw attention on the printing surface of the thread-hole button seal made of serpentine in the fill soil of the 2 structure levels of Domuztepe Mound.
The presence of stylized bull head motifs as paint decorations on clay pottery at Domuztepe was detected in the past years. In the mound, which is the largest settlement of the lifestyle known as “Halaf” in traditional Mesopotamian terminology in the Eastern Mediterranean, the bullheads visualized on different materials are mostly accepted as the representative of the species known as domestic cattle (Bos Taurus) in the Near East. On the other hand, it is possible that the species in the samples shaped both as a paint decoration on pottery and by scraping on seal impressions is a water buffalo (bos bubalis). Since archaeozoological studies have not been completed yet, it is premature to say that water buffalo was domesticated in the Eastern Mediterranean, where Domuztepe is located, in the 7th-6th millennium BC.
(Excerpt) Read more at arkeonews.net ...
Bull and water buffalo (?) heads are seen as paint decorations on pottery.Arkeonews
Yes but could they teach the seals to do tricks?
First post in a year and it’s a bad joke :)
Sorry.
Hope all is well.
Yes but could they teach the seals to do tricks?
First post in a year and it’s a bad joke :)
Sorry.
Hope all is well.
Bulls?
Yeah, that really looks like a bull.......................
Website blocked by Malwarebytes due to riskware. Says malware activity going on there, so I did not continue to open the site to view your article.
“First post in a year and it’s a bad joke :)”
I expect nothing less from you.
Best,
L
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*probably* not work safe, Sean Lock on seal clubbing:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Q9IRpFGgPY&t=90
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