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, Page 247-288 PDF (2.64 MB) | ||||
| Document Type: المقالة الأصلية | ||||
| DOI: 10.21608/jarch.2022.212070 | ||||
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| 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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