Chickens in the Ancient World

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A Greek (Corinthian) perfume vase ornamented with a rooster (ca. 620–590 B.C.E.). Image courtesy of <a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Terracotta_alabastron_(perfume_vase)_MET_DP119902.jpg" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" class="nolightbox">Wikimedia Commons</a>.A Greek (Corinthian) pitcher depicting a rooster c. 575 B.C.E. Image courtesy of the <a href="http://clevelandart.org/art/1924.355#" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" class="nolightbox">Cleveland Museum of Art</a>.A Greek youth astride a rooster in this vase painting by Epiktetos (ca. 520–510 B.C.E.). Image courtesy of <a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Youth_rooster_Met_1981.11.10.jpg" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" class="nolightbox">Wikimedia Commons</a>.6th century B.C.E. Greco-Phoenician gemstone seal depicting a youth holding a rooster. Image courtesy of <a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Greek_Seals_4.jpg" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" class="nolightbox">Wikimedia Commons</a>.Terracotta rooster from Greece, 6th Century B.C.E. Image courtesy of the <a href="http://clevelandart.org/art/1927.23" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" class="nolightbox">Cleveland Museum of Art</a>.6th century B.C.E. terracotta figurine of a rooster from Greece. Photographed at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem by the author.Greek amphora (ca. 510 B.C.E.) depicting the presentation of Ganymede with a rooster by the god Zeus. Image courtesy of <a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Zeus_Ganymedes_Staatliche_Antikensammlungen_6009.jpg" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" class="nolightbox">Wikimedia Commons</a>.Late 6th or early 5th century B.C.E. coin from Dardanos (Turkey) bearing the image of a rooster. Image courtesy of the <a href="https://www.cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=252280" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Classical Numismatic Group</a>.Aegineatan Drachm, c. 482 B.C.E.Image courtesy of the <a href="http://clevelandart.org/art/1917.989" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" class="nolightbox">Cleveland Museum of Art</a>.Silver didrachma coin from Himera, Sicily depicting a rooster and bearing the inscription HIMERA (ca. 483-472 B.C.E.). Image courtesy of the <a href="https://www.cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=217040" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Classical Numismatic Group</a>.5th century B.C.E. gemstone seal depicting a rooster running over a lion's back. Image courtesy of <a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Greek_Seals_2.jpg" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" class="nolightbox">Wikimedia Commons</a>.A rooster from a mid fourth-century B.C.E. tomb painting in Paestum (Italy). Image courtesy of <a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lucanian_fresco_tomb_painting_of_a_rooster,_about_350_BC,_Paestum_Archaeological_Museum_(14623218423).jpg" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" class="nolightbox">Wikimedia Commons</a>.4th century B.C.E. Etruscan flask in the form of a rooster. Image courtesy of <a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Terracotta_askos_(flask)_in_the_form_of_a_rooster_MET_DP252108.jpg" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" class="nolightbox">Wikimedia Commons</a>.Late 4th century (?) B.C.E. Greco-Persian seal (above) and impression (below) depicting a cockfight. Discovered in Anapa, on the norther coast of the Black Sea in Russia. Image courtesy of <a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Greco-Persian_seal_Cockfight.jpg" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" class="nolightbox">Wikimedia Commons</a>.Late 4th century B.C.E. Greco-Persian gemstone seal depicting a rooster. Image courtesy of <a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Greek_Seals_6.jpg" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" class="nolightbox">Wikimedia Commons</a>.Coin from Karystos, Euboea (a Greek island) depicting a rooster and bearing the inscription ΚΑΡΥΣΤΙΩΝ (ca. 313-265 B.C.E). Image courtesy of the <a href="https://www.cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=30427" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Classical Numismatic Group</a>.Coin from Campania (Italy) depicting a rooster (ca. 265-240 B.C.E.). Image courtesy of the <a href="https://www.cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=259110" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Classical Numismatic Group</a>.

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