RECORD / MZ SITEWIDE / Video and Film Clips / VC10
Laerke Recht, 2012-
| Date | 30 August 2012 |
| Cameraman | Giorgio Buccellati |
| Format | .MP4 |
| File size | 26.8 MB |
| Duration | 5.11 minutes (no sound) |
| Warning | Strong images, including blood |
| Description | We witness the butcher Augusto Crosetti and his team slaughter a bull. The first part shows what happens immediately after the animal is killed: it is hanged upside down by the back legs and the head is cut off. Macellerie Crosetti, Crodo (VB), Italy. |
| Notes | The sequence is of particular interest in relation to the Akkadian seal A15.270. This seal depicts a bull held upside down by the back legs by two priests (rather than a machine as is done by the modern butcher here); the bull's head has been cut off, and one of the priests holds a dagger or knife in his hand. We see here how easy it in fact is to cut off the head. The butcher does not cut the bone itself, but rather softer tissue between vertebrae. In this second part, we can also see how easily the lower legs are cut off by going through softer tissue - animals with the lower legs missing are also depicted in Near Eastern iconography. |
| Featuring | Augusto Crosetti |
| Links | RECORD > A15 > A15.270 TYPOLOGY > GLYPTICS > Link needed INTERPRETATION > RELIGION > Link needed |
