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A basalt orthostat from Carchemish depicting a pair of bull-men. The upper torsos and faces are depicted in frontal view. Both have bull's ears and horns, and conical caps, and one of their arms holds a stylized palm tree. The lower portions of the bodies face towards the center. They stand on two legs that have hoofs. A tail is visible on the figure on the left.
These figures seem to be the opposite of the Minotaur of the Palace of Knossos on Crete which had the body of a man and the head (and tail) of a bull!
The orthostat is about 3.5 feet high and dates to the Neo-Hittite Period (ca. 900-717 BC).
