Khalkotauroi

[Koen G]

Good ones? That's quite the understatement. (I do feel like we must have discussed this one before though).

The similarities are so many that this image should be used as one of the "benchmarks" to determine which variables are typical:

• Hilly terrain
  
• some shrubbery to give rise to a possible "basket" reinterpretation
  
• wide-eyed expression with both eyes looking at us (this is unclear in the darker bull).
  
• further front leg raised
  
• facing left
  
• neck upright like a deer or horse
  
• lyre-shaped horns
  
• both draw dewclaws, but perhaps in a different style
  
• there is not a "roll" of hair on the forehead, but rather just some tufts. Although the light bull has nothing.
  

Differences are:

• wrong color
  
• back legs are anatomically correct (I still think this is likely a mistake introduced by the VM artist)
  
• horns aren't excessively long
  
• pointed ears vs rounded ears
  
• tail between the legs vs. behind the body
  
• the tail of the VM bull is strangely split at the end
  
• there is something weird going on in the genital area. The Ms. 459 bull correctly has this tuft in the middle (this is where the penis comes out when the bull is aroused), but no testicles (maybe it's an Ox). The VM bulls have a pointy penis (?) where the testicles should be. 
  

   

What did I miss?
Any other proposed bulls can be put through this checklist and like that you can track where the properties come from and where they converge.