aurochs

(noun)

An extinct European mammal, Bos primigenius, the ancestor of domestic cattle.

Related Terms

  • ziggurat
  • glazed

Examples of aurochs in the following topics:

  • Paleolithic Cave Paintings

    • The most common themes in cave paintings are large wild animals, such as bison, horses, aurochs, and deer.
    • Over nine hundred images depict animals from the surrounding areas, such as horses, stags, aurochs, bison, lions, bears, and birds—species that would have been hunted and eaten, and those identified as predators.
  • Neo-Babylonia

    • It was constructed in 575 BC by order of Nebuchadnezzar II, using glazed brick with alternating rows of bas-relief dragons and aurochs.
    • An aurochs above a flower ribbon with missing tiles filled in (Ishtar Gate bas-relief, housed in the Pergamon Museum in Berlin).
  • Art in Western Europe

    • The drawings depict zoomorphic and anthropomorphic images of nature including horses and aurochs with mouths and nostrils.
  • Architecture in Mesopotamia

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