Aurlog » marble http://www.aurochs.org/aurlog Cows and stuff Sun, 08 Jan 2012 22:41:32 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Photos of me http://www.aurochs.org/aurlog/2010/05/05/photos-of-me/ http://www.aurochs.org/aurlog/2010/05/05/photos-of-me/#comments Wed, 05 May 2010 21:06:46 +0000 Orangeaurochs http://www.aurochs.org/aurlog/?p=544 I expect most readers of this blog are desperate to know what I really look like. The photo at the top of this blog doesn’t really give a good image so I put some better pictures on Flickr, the most representative of which is below:

Orangeaurochs

The caption reads:

Marble figure of a recumbent bull

Probably made in [...]]]> I expect most readers of this blog are desperate to know what I really look like. The photo at the top of this blog doesn’t really give a good image so I put some better pictures on Flickr, the most representative of which is below:

Orangeaurochs

Orangeaurochs

The caption reads:

Marble figure of a recumbent bull

Probably made in Athens about 400-350 BC. Perhaps from Kerameikos, Athens.

The bull may have served as a grave marker; it is likely that it was designed to be set on a high base and so seen only from below and from the front.

According to Wikipedia, Kerameikos is an area of Athens famous for its potters (the name is related to our word ceramic) as well being the site of a significant cemetery. Presumably the recumbent bull did some service there.

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