Jug in the form of a recumbent bull ca. 7th-6th century B.C. Iran This jug takes the shape of a recumbent bull with a long neck. The bulls body is roughly cylindrical. It sits on two folds of clay that seemingly represent the bulls folded legs, although the front fold is bent in the wrong direction. A thick spout also serves as the bulls tail. The bulls neck is slender and curls back so that its head faces to the left. The bull has a round snout, bulging eyes, and horns that curve toward one another. The jug is made of red clay.This jug was excavated at Chekka Sabz (also spelled Chigha Sabz, meaning ‘green mound) in the Pish-i Kuh (‘before the mountain) region of Luristan in western Iran. It was found in a buried cache of objects which included two Neo-Elamite cylinder seals, two vessels in the form of human figures, and at least three other bull-shaped vessels. The seals date to the 8th-6th centuries B.C., and the pottery found with them, including this vessel, likely date to th