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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;DonnaML, post: 6795802, member: 110350&quot;]I answered my question about the triangle on the bull&#039;s forehead pretty easily. See this description of a similar small bronze bull at the Metropolitan Museum of Art:</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/570723" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/570723" rel="nofollow">https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/570723</a></p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;Arguably the Apis, unlike many sacred animals in Egypt, was not just favored by a certain deity, but was considered a deity in his own right. A single living representative was stabled near the Ptah temple in Memphis. The bull selected for this important role had certain colorful markings, <b>such as a white triangle on the forehead</b>, and black patches resembling winged birds or scarabs on the body. The bull is often shown, as here, wearing a large sun disc. <b>Similar markings and adornments are easily visible on Apis 17.190.62.</b>&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>I noticed that the Met&#039;s bull, a &quot;Gift of Darius Ogden Mills, 1904,&quot; is not only about the same size as mine, but looks quite a bit like it, except that it&#039;s almost entirely covered with a green patina:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1272112[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1272113[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Meanwhile, the 1-gram desiccant packs I ordered haven&#039;t arrived yet, but the package of small humidity meters I ordered came this morning. The current humidity reading inside the bull&#039;s glass dome -- and in my living room generally -- is 30%. It will be interesting to see if the desiccant packs reduce that further, but even without them it&#039;s well below the 50% level that people mentioned might raise concerns about the bronze disease recurring.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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