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Amulet with a Lamashtu demon
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Obsidian
Ancient Near Eastern Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art New York NY, Purchase James N. Spear Gift 1984
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scroll painting
scroll painting
The depictions of hell on the scroll are as follows, from left to right and top to bottom: 1. A seated underworld official with bare chest and belly is drinking, while a man and a ...
Scaraboid Seal: Hawks
Scaraboid Seal: Hawks
This scaraboid seal is of the “acorn” type. One side shows a frontal, bearded man with full cheeks, a thin and rectangular mouth, a triangular nose, and incised hemispherical eyes....
Rustam's Seventh Course: He Slays the White Demon (painting, recto; text, verso), illustrated folio from a manuscript of the Shahnama by Firdawsi
Rustam's Seventh Course: He Slays the White Demon (painting, recto; text, verso), illustrated folio from a manuscript of the Shahnama by Firdawsi
The great hero Rustam had to perform a series of labors to free the king of Iran, Kay Kavus, who had been captured by the evil Ahriman. This illustrated folio depicts Rustam’s seve...
Pazuzu Plaque
Pazuzu Plaque
A representation of the demon Pazuzu fills the entire front of this relief plaque of gray stone. The figure displays the standard features of this hybrid creature, mixing human, ca...
Text concerning Rustam’s fifth and sixth trials (text, recto and verso), folio from a manuscript of the Shahnama by Firdawsi
Text concerning Rustam’s fifth and sixth trials (text, recto and verso), folio from a manuscript of the Shahnama by Firdawsi
Mighty Rustam is the chief hero in the Shahnama. In the course of an adventurous life that spanned centuries, he battled for Iran and her rulers. Here, in the last of his seven cou...