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The Horseshoe-Shaped Hearth with Ram-Headed Ends, is a clay sculpture found in the History Museum of Armenia.^[1]

Armenia's Early Bronze Age monuments that were discovered had similar hearths decorated with anthropomorphic and animal sculptures, that were special altars installed in homes to perform beliefs concerning agricultural rituals.^[2]

Early Bronze Age culture built stone hearths next to clay mobile hearths which served different purposes. Horseshoe-shaped or arched-shaped mobile hearths are used only for ceremonial purposes. According to common belief, the mobile hearth symbolizes the male head of the household and their ability to prosper.^[3] The mobile hearths are put over extinguished fires or on top of ashes, then are kept on the inside of ancient ovens called tonirs, in a vertical position. There are examples of the Early Bronze Age found on a few stones assembled on fireplaces. ^{[notes 1]}

• Hasmik Israelyan, Worship and Beliefs of the Late Bronze Age in Armenia, Yerevan, 1973
• View from the Bronze Age, album-catalog, History Museum of Armenia, 2010