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Bucranium (plural
bucrania; Latin, from Gr**** βουκράνιον,
referring to the
skull of an ox) was a form of
carved decoration commonly used in
classical architecture...
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flutes have flat tops. The
frieze exhibits fruit festoons suspended between bucrania.
Above each
festoon has a
rosette over its center. The
cornice does not...
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monotones en camaïeu ("like cameos"),
isolated medallions or
vases or
busts or
bucrania or
other motifs,
suspended on
swags of
laurel or ribbon, with
slender arabesques...
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monotones en camaïeu ("like cameos"),
isolated medallions or
vases or
busts or
bucrania or
other motifs,
suspended on
swags of
laurel or ribbon, with
slender arabesques...
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Neolithic period,
cattle skulls, also
known as
bucrania, were
often placed alongside human burials.
Bucrania were a
status symbol, and they were used frequently...
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Three sides of a
taurobolium altar showing bucrania and a
sacrificial knife, with a
dedication to the
Great Idaean Mother of the Gods, from
Lugdunum (Lyon)...
- in Anatolia: a
single chamber cella with a
terrazzo floor beneath which bucrania were found. In
phase E,
corresponding to the Uruk III
period (c. 3200–3000 BC)...
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infant telamones, rams'
skulls are
placed at the apex of each
spandrel like
bucrania;
bronze nude
figures in
varying poses,
hiding in the shadows,
propped between...
- knot, or held in the
mouths of lions, or
suspended across the tops of
bucrania as in the
Temple of
Vesta at Tivoli.
Detail of an
Ancient Gr**** mosaic...
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flutes have flat tops. The
frieze exhibits fruit swags suspended between bucrania.
Above each swag is a rosette. The
cornice does not have modillions. The...
