The horns: symbol of power An iconographical study in Mesopotamian Art | ||
مجلة کلية الآثار . جامعة القاهرة | ||
Article 12, Volume 12, Issue 2022 - Serial Number 25, 2022, Pages 247-288 PDF (2.64 M) | ||
Document Type: المقالة الأصلية | ||
DOI: 10.21608/jarch.2022.212070 | ||
Author | ||
Inass Mostafa Abd Elmohsen | ||
faculty of Archeology –Aswan University | ||
Abstract | ||
The horns play an important role in the civilizations of the ancient Near East, and in Mesopotamia in particular, where man considered them a symbol of strength and fertility because the animals that possessed them were characterized by these qualities. By the time the man borrows this animal part to indicate his strength as a human. Many modern civilizations believe that the presence of horns on the head point to a primitive demonic origin, while in Mesopotamia it was considered to be a divine and sacred origin. | ||
Keywords | ||
Horns -qarnu; Ibex - bull man- Apkallu; bull- moon horn | ||
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