Museum quality Horse or Bull rock graffiti, Asia Minor, Upper
Paleolithic - Neolithic age 30,000-7,000 BC
Amazing example of Upper
Paleolithic/Neolithic arts from Asia Minor.
Height of the stone: 60
mm = 6 cm;
Height of the bull: 37
mm = 3.7 cm
Width of the stone: 85
mm = 8.5 cm
Length of the bull: 61
mm = 6.1 cm
Depth: 28 mm = 2.8 cm;
Weight: 134.12 g;
Mohs hardness: 3.5-4.0;
Nature of the stone: red
sandstone or basalt rock.
Obvious traces of using
of Neolithic tools.
Provenance: Private
collection of a doctor from Armenia from 1950s.