The statuettes commonly referred to as “Ram Caught in a Thicket” (2500 BC) may well be associated with what is known from later texts (2nd millennium BC) as the (daily) determining-of-the-fates ritual that occurred at sunrise. Symbolic elements (tree, rosette, leaf, possible mountain), and motifs (quadruped facing a tree) occur in other media—glyptic, musical instruments—and their meaning informs the unique combination of elements found in these two statuettes. It is proposed that the statuettes are offering stands. The composition as a whole represents a sacred landscape rather than a charming genre scene. It is likely that the statuettes were associated with the daily ritual of the determining of the fates, which would push the later attestations of that ritual and the cosmological view behind it back to the mid-third millennium BC.

小雕像通常被称为“公羊被困在灌木丛中”（公元前2500年），很可能与后来的文本（公元前2世纪）相联系。）作为日出时发生的（每日）命运决定仪式。符号元素（树，玫瑰花结，叶子，可能的山峰）和图案（四面饰树）出现在其他媒介中，例如雕琢的乐器，它们的含义为这两个小雕像中的元素的独特组合提供了信息。建议小雕像提供摊位。整个构图代表着神圣的风景，而不是迷人的风格场景。小雕像可能与确定命运的日常仪式有关，这将把该仪式的后来证明和其背后的宇宙观推回到公元前三千年中叶。