An heterogeneous but substantial group of Indus or Indus-related seals (second half of the IIIrd millennium BC) found in the west, from Mesopotamia to Iran, the gulf and Central Asia, is distinguished by the image of a short-horned bull. It is assumed that the choice was intentional and the hypothesis is that this animal was selected as a symbol of the harappan trading families operating in the western foreign countries

The short-horned bull on the Indus seals: a symbol of the families in the western trade?

VIDALE, MASSIMO
2005

Abstract

An heterogeneous but substantial group of Indus or Indus-related seals (second half of the IIIrd millennium BC) found in the west, from Mesopotamia to Iran, the gulf and Central Asia, is distinguished by the image of a short-horned bull. It is assumed that the choice was intentional and the hypothesis is that this animal was selected as a symbol of the harappan trading families operating in the western foreign countries
2005
South Asian Archaeology 2003. Proceedings of the seventeeth international conference of the European Association of South Asian Archaeologists
3929290111
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