The short-horned bull on the Indus seals: a symbol of the families in the western trade?

An heterogeneous but substantial group of Indus or Indus-related seals (second half of the IIIrd millennium BC) found in the west, from Mesopotamia to Iran, the gulf and Central Asia, is distinguished by the image of a short-horned bull. It is assumed that the choice was intentional and the hypothesis is that this animal was selected as a symbol of the harappan trading families operating in the western foreign countrie