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368   ANIMAL REMAINS FROM THE EXCAVATIONS AT ANAU.

Table of dimensions (in millimeters) .—Continued.

Length of
toothless
part.

Width of
ascending
branch.

Width of condylus of processus glenoidalis.

Lower jaw.

Length.

Length of dentition.

North Kurgan, Anau, No. 912,

+8 feet   
Mummied bull of Abadieh

(Egypt), Mus. London   
Bos brachyceros, Walthamstow,

coll. Duerst   
Bos taurus macroceros:

Watussi, Mus. Berlin   

Hungary, Mus. Vienna   

Somâl, Mus. Berlin   

375

318

340

395

325

135

I27

123

136

114

109

89

104

• 86

93 •

I18

119

88

I14

718

III

45

44

39

44

Length of corpus.

North Kurgan, Anau, No.

1567, —6 feet    50

Bos primigenius Rütimeyer   56

Width of ale.

234

255

Length of aloe.

123

147

Diameter of
anterior
articulation.

143

150

Diameter of aperture.

52

Diameter of
posterior
articulation.

I 1 2

I15

Atlas.

The horn-cores of the tame bovid of Anau are represented only by fragments of the bases, and by several pieces from the inner curve of the cores. The one measurable horn-base is about 23 cm. ; one of the longest fragments of the inner curve of the core has a length of 24.2 cm., which corresponds to an approximate length of horn-core of 32 cm. We find in some subfossil and recent macroceros bovids the following corresponding dimensions in millimeters, ard the horn-cores from Anau would, therefore, correspond very well to the old Egyptian bovid :

As in my memoir on the Fauna of the Schlossberg zu Burg a. d. Spree (pp. 254, 255} and the size of the domestic cattle found there, so in this case I. shall calculate the height of the withers from the separate bones, in order to make clear the form and size of the Anau bovid.

For Bos namadicus, calculating the length of lower jaw, the length of skull along the base is 51 cm. and the height of the withers in the live animal is 149 cm.

For Bos taurus macroceros we obtain, according to comparative measurements, and basing our calculation on the metacarpus, which has a distance of 6o cm. from its distal end to the proximal end of the radius, a height of the withers in the living animal of 153 cm.

Circumference at base.

Length of horn-core.

Longitudinal diameter.

Transverse diameter.

Egyptian long-horns from Abadieh (Mus. London) :

No. 6   

No. 5   

Hungarian bull, Vienna   

Apis skull of Halle   

I6o 190 250 . 270

270

520

405

44

56

84

55

64

66