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Thread: Vessel from Tepe Hissar, a prehistoric site, continuously occupied between 5th to the 2nd millennium BC, Northeastern Iran. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tepe_Hissar
It seems that these two animals had a special significance for the people of Tepe Hissar...Here are two more bowls from the period 4500-4000 BC, one with Bezoar goats and one with leopards...
Bezoar and leopard were used in Western Asia, Mesopotamia and Central Asia as calendar markers for "rain season", because their mating seasons (Bezoar: Nov-Jan and Leopard: Jan-Mar) span the middle of the rain season (Oct-May). Climate in Tepe Hissar
I talked about the same symbolism in Iraq in this thread https://twitter.com/serbiaireland/status/1281614644939980801
But what I love about the original Tepe Hissar vase from this thread, is that this link between rain, water and mating of leopards and bezoars is actually depicted on the vase. Explicitly 
One other very very interesting thing about the Tepe Hissar Bezoar depictions (apart from giant erections ) is the "thing" located inside of the goat's horns...Flower? Or Sun? Winter solstice falls in the middle of the Ibex-Bezoar mating season... http://oldeuropeanculture.blogspot.com/2016/12/goat.html
) is the "thing" located inside of the goat's horns...Flower? Or Sun? Winter solstice falls in the middle of the Ibex-Bezoar mating season... http://oldeuropeanculture.blogspot.com/2016/12/goat.html
That this is indeed most likely sun and not flower can be seen on this vessel shard from Tepe Hissar
