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Relief with a Bull

Date

350–300 B.C.

Medium

Terracotta with foil gilding

Culture

Greek (South Italian, Tarantine)

Department

Sculpture

Institution

Getty Museum

The bull is depicted facing left with its head tilted in three-quarter view. Its left front hoof is raised, and the back right hoof extends forward; the tail curves around in a full loop. There is little depth and the animal stands on a long, thin base. The relief was gilded; the back is undecorated and unarticulated. A hole was pierced through the bull’s left shoulder to attach this section of ornamental relief to furniture or a sarcophagus.

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