The bull and 'sow' bas-reliefs in the outer room of the Middle Tarxien temple. Next to them is another bas-relief of another bull. It is not certain what the bottom effigy represents. The most accepted suggestion, is that it represents a sow with its suckling piglets, but also a cow with milking calf. See the web page about animal representation in prehistoric Malta at The Maltese Neolithic Domesticated Mammals, a paper by C. Savona-Ventura and A. Mifsud.

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