One of the most common designs found on Bronze Age Jiroft culture vessels from Halil River catchment area is "horned animals grazing on green shoots"...
The two animals depicted on these designs are:
Wild goats (Bezoar ibex)
Wild sheep (Mouflon)
Both animals have mating seasons which start at the end of Oct, beginning of Nov, at the exact moment when the rain season starts in the Halil river (Jiroft) valley...
The baby Bezoar goats and baby Mouflon sheep are born in April, at the end of the rain season...So the mating (Oct/Nov) and birthing (Apr) of wild goats and wild sheep marks the beginning and the end of the rain season in the Halil river (Jiroft) valley...
The rain season is also the "green" season, the time of new growth...Which is why these two animals are always depicted together with branches or bushes or trees full of new (green) leaves. Basically, they are used as calendar markers for beginning (and end) of the rain season...
So two more animals to add to already identified list of Jiroft culture animal solar year calendar markers I talked about in these two articles: "Khafajeh vase" and "Jiroft flood vase"...
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