ZOOMORPHIC AND ANTHROPOMORPHIC PAINTINGS ON PLASTERED WALLS IN THE POST-PALEOLITHIC

Museum of the Origins of Man

ZOOMORPHIC AND ANTHROPOMORPHIC PAINTINGS ON PLASTERED WALLS IN THE POST-PALEOLITHIC

Fig. F51) Bull (hunting scene).
Painting on plaster (copy).
Location: Çatalhöyük Museum, Turkey.
Dating: VI millennium BC.
Two-dimensional art (Mesolithic tradition of the Eastern civilization).
The Bull was a deity and had not yet been domesticated.
Therefore the hunting scene could also be interpreted as an image of the Bull protector of the hunt, and for this in the foreground.
We find Taurus' worship in southern France, on the Italian border on Mount Bego, 80 km from Nice. Are rock engravings (two-dimensional art) made on 2500 m of altitude and dating back about 3800-3600 years ago (Bronze Age). Are more than 35.000. Most of them represent bull heads, realized in a strongly schematic style, with quasi triangular head and long horns.

Fig. F52) Two leopards facing each other.
Painting on plaster.
Religious subject. Extinct religion.
The painting is a reproduction of the original, exhibited in the Museum of Anatolian Civilizations in Ankara, Turkey.
Origin: Çatalhöyük Museum, Çatalhöyük, Turkey.
Dating: VI millennium BC.
Note that leopards are decorated with four and five-pointed stars. It is probable that this type of star had religious value.

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