Illustration of the shrine room with sacred bull, Çatalhöyük

Illustration of a bull head with male and female human figures executed on the interior walls of shrine. Bulls, particularly aurochs, survived into the Iron Age in Anatolia and the Near East and they were worshipped throughout that area as a sacred animal. The earliest survivals of a bull worship are found at the Neolithic Site of Çatalhöyük.90x150 mm, color photograph