A U R O C H S

Bull | He / They | 27 🐂 Aurochs Paleotherian🐂 Mate: @qremlin

[smolspacecreature]

Cave paintings in a lil sketchbook (watercolors, some white gel pen for detail)

[letmeinimafairy]

A recent commission, back to the cave. Slowly started creating some kind of a story in cave paintings in my head, a continuation of the ammonite cave.

[suckyloser]

i’m still dead :/

[mentholmutt]

[palaeoplushies]

I've gone ahead and listed this beanie female Aurochs plushie for sale on my website! For sale here She's made of a combination of sublimated minky fabrics that I printed and heat-transferred at home.

I'm really pleased with her and I love the ability to get my printed designs onto fabric without having to out-source it, it also means I can experiment with sublimating onto different types of fabric!

[jimatic-jinema]

somewhat inspired by that rabbit meme lol

[eredhes]

[ID: Lino print of a bison and aurochs inspired by Lascaux. They are shown from the side and arranged so each is upside down to the other, back to back with their heads overlapping each others bodies. There are a series of dots between the horns of each animal. The last two prints are the same design with a red print layer showing a cow and a small horse overlapping the aurochs, and the bison's back is filled in with red ink. End ID.]

Aurochs and Bison New lino design, sketched it in January and cut it out in August. Prints available at eredhes.etsy.com

[eredhes]

[ID: Close ups of lino print of a bison and aurochs inspired by Lascaux. Image one - close up of bison, which has a series of 4 dots between the horns. Second - close up of aurochs who has dots on the face, six parallel dots between the horns, and a symbol that is six horizontal parallel lines with three vertical parallel lines in the middle. Third - close up of the aurochs but the area around it's head is red. Fourth - close up of the aurochs' chest with a red cow's head and the front half of a small red horse with a black head and mane. End ID.]

Details of Aurochs and Bison lino print. Prints available at eredhes.etsy.com

[eredhes]

[ID: Photos of two unpainted clay figures of an aurochs and a bison arranged side by side. Both are lying down, the aurochs looking to the left and the bison to the right. Each photo shows a different angle. End ID.]

Two of them together. Biggest figures I've made so far, each just under 1kg.

[thedrawinggizzard]

Beef and Venison

The Irish Elk and The Aurochs, two giant ice age herbivores. I love Pleistocene megafauna, the fact that we are so close to them in time, so close that our ancestors saw and drew them, has always fascinated me.

[bovinearthistory]

Coffin footboard depicting the Apis bull carrying a mummy

Third intermediate Period Egypt, 750-525 BCE

Wood, paint, paste, and cloth

Originally the bottom of a coffin, this wooden board depicts the sacred Hapy (in Greek called the Apis) bull carrying the mummified deceased on its back. Associated with the sed-festival, at which the pharaoh was rejuvenated after 30 years of rule, the earthly incarnation of the Apis bull was housed near the Temple of Ptah at Memphis. When an Apis bull died, it was elaborately mummified and buried with great ceremony in the Serapeum, a communal tomb for these bulls at Saqqara. The new Apis was chosen by very specific markings on its hide.

A running figure of the Apis bull is often seen on the footboard of Theban cartonnages and coffins from the mid-Third Intermediate Period (around 950 B.C.) and later, with examples such as this one, with a human mummy on its back, most common in Dynasties 25 and 26 (between 750 and 525 B.C.). The bull, its royal and divine nature emphasized by the rearing cobra (uraeus) between its horns, was believed to carry the deceased either toward the west, into the tomb, or east, toward the dawn horizon. Either way, the bull was meant to escort the owner safely over the border between death and the afterlife, and thus help to ensure his or her eternal rebirth.

[bovinearthistory]

Pectoral with bovine head crowned with disk, horns and feathers

Late Period-Early Ptolemaic Period Egypt, c. 664-200 BCE

Cupreous metal, carnelian

Beneath a frieze of uraei held up by Hathor columns, a bovine face peers out. The head is mounted on a collar to form an aegis, and the animal wears a disk and long straight horns with two curling plumes. Also mounted on the aegis collar are two uraei that turn inward toward the bovine. Two other large uraei crowned with disk and horns flank the central unit. On the back are four large rings that would permit mounting.

[bovinearthistory]

Aurochs engraving

Romito Cave, Italy

[bovinearthistory]

Aurochs engraving

Qurta, Egypt, c. 21000-9000 BCE

[arthistoryanimalia]

For #TextileTuesday + #CowAppreciationDay 🐮🐄:

Pichhwai for the Festival of Cows [Gopashtami] India, Deccan, Aurangabad (?), late 18th c. Painted & printed gold & silver leaf & opaque watercolor on indigo-dyed cotton 97 5/8 x 103 1/8 in. (248 x 262 cm) Metropolitan Museum of Art New York 2003.177

"Large painted cloths (pichhwais) were made to hang behind the main image in a temple. This textile was produced for the Festival of Cows (Gopashtami), which occurs in the late autumn to celebrate Krishna’s elevation from a herder of calves to a cowherd. Note the range of cows and frolicking calves that populate the flower-strewn field. The indigo ground and extensive use of gold and silver are typical of pichhwais that were made for a community of Sri Nathji devotees who moved to the Deccan during this period."

[bovinearthistory]

Aurochs engraving

Qurta, Egypt, 21000-9000 BCE

[buffalodyl]

Ungulate Cladotherian: Somebeing who identifies with the clade Euungulata, which encompasses all odd and even toed mammals such as horses, cows, deer, pigs, rhinos, and much more.