bucranium
English
editEtymology
editFrom Latin būcrānium, from Ancient Greek βουκράνιον (boukránion).
Noun
editbucranium (plural bucraniums or bucrania)
- The head of an ox.
- 1986, Nanno Marinatos, Minoan Sacrificial Ritual:
- On the second side of the gem, we see the victim, a running goat, and on the third side the symbol of sacrifice, the bucranium.
- 2000, Béatrix Midant-Reynes, The Prehistory of Egypt:
- It was also in relation to the funerary world that bucrania were placed at the bottoms of the pits.