Talk:Bucranium


 * a Roman motif ... generally considered to be a reference to the practice of garlanding sacrificial oxen, the heads of which were primitively displayed on the walls of the temples, a practice with a long history reaching back to the sophisticated Neolithic site of Çatalhöyük ...

Is there any actual evidence of continuity in this practice over so vast a period? It seems extremely unlikely, since the end of Çatalhöyük pre-dates the origins of Rome by some 5,000 years. That's a really, really long time; because the distance between now and ancient Rome is less than half as great as the distance between Rome and Çatalhöyük. -- 202.63.39.58 (talk) 09:27, 27 February 2011 (UTC)

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Perhaps 'fleshed' is misleading.
In the Overview: "...although these are actually fleshed ox heads with eyes."

In order to exclude the idea that ox flesh is used in the decoration, I would like to suggest the following replacement:

"...although these are actually depictions of fleshed ox heads with eyes" TDisk-z (talk) 18:01, 27 April 2024 (UTC)