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Ornament > Bucrania

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Bucrania  

Definition

  • Motifs representing the head or skull of an ox, often garlanded, common in classical style friezes [AAT]; the skull of a ram, ox, bull or goat in Greco-Roman classical ornament; in the Renaissance and to a greater degree in the 18th c., became a favorite decoration for any projecting element [Lewis and Darley]

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Entry terms

  • Bucranes

Notation

  • 120713

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URI

http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/JLC-T0P5ZVX7-1

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