Discover the mystery of the human cow; A trace of the oldest Iranian civilization

According to ISNA, the Metropolitan Museum Collection in New York is the house of a 4 -year -old silver sculpture showing a cow that has a human -like condition and holds a crater. The statue in southern Mesopotamia was made by a man of the “anonymous” culture, the oldest civilization of ancient Iran, and was probably used in a religious ceremony or ritual.

Livesins, according to an article by Kate Lefferts, the Metropolitan Museum Restorer, wrote, the height of the cow “is 1.5 cm and is made of 1.5 % pure silver. Inside the hollow statue, Lefers found five small limestone stones that were probably inserted by the artist to create a snoring or a sculpture. The fibers attached to the statue were made of animal fibers.

According to an article written by Donald Hansen, a professor of beautiful arts at New York University, this amazing combination of human and animal features is described. The cow’s head with curved horns is on the shoulder -like shoulders, and the creature has a decorated dress that covers its knee legs. The long arms of the cow look like humans but end up with poison and hold a container. Hansen noted that the statue did not have a smooth base; It means that he could not stand on the hard surface alone.

The statue is built in the civilization of Ilam (Elam), an ancient area today southwestern Iran. The area was the “anonymous” headquarters, an initial civilization in the East near the Copper Age. The “ancestors” invented cylindrical cylinders (cylinders engraved and used for administrative purposes), many of which show animals in human -like gestures. The “kneeling cow” is probably made in the tradition of “the ancestry” to build the legendary animal hybrids, but with a real appearance.

It is unclear why someone decided to make “kneeling cows” five thousand years ago. But according to Hansen, the calcareous stones in the statue and cloth attached to it show that the work was probably used in a religious ceremony or ritual. There may be even a “sculpture”. These objects were deliberately died during the construction of the “ancestral” temples to symbolically mark the sacred land. If the knee cow is made as a sculpture, it will never be seen again.