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The goat that lived before Christ

The goat that lived before Christ
II century B.C. Bas-relief found in the Museum of Ancient Ostia (detail). Source: ‘Capra Facciuta della Valnerina. Racconto di una popolazione caprina dimenticata’, Cafarelli et al. (2019) © ‘Regione Umbria, Servizio Sviluppo rurale e Agricoltura Sostenibile’
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The goat that lived before Christ

In a bas-relief found in the Museum of Ancient Ostia (Lazio) (dated approximately around the second century B.C.) a goat with divergent flat section horns is noticeable. Together with the preceding iconographic evidence from Villa Adriana in Tivoli, this bas-relief further suggests that different typologies of horns have always coexisted. Then, through time, certain typologies might have become more popular and widespread within specific cultural and geographical contexts.