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A Rejoinder to the Eliakim Naʿar Yokan Seal Impressions by Anson Rainey is a Arts and Humanities article available to read on EtoBox.
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The authors contend that lions without a mane can only signify lionessesf female entities (page 149J. However1 two types of lions were known in Mesopotamia until they became extinct by the end of last century. Englishman Austen H. Layard! excavator of Nimrud and Nineveh, describes the two types as the common maneless lion (Babylonian lion), taller and larger than a St. Bernardf and the lion with a dark arud shaggy mane of the African species. According to Layard ll853: 487): 1XThe inhabitants of the country make a distinction between the [African speciesl and the common maneless lion; the former are Kafir or infidels! the others Mussulmans. By a proper remonstrancef and at the same time pronouncing the profession of faith) a true believex may induce the one to spare him but the unbelieving lion is inexorable.1t It may be1 then} that the emblematic motif of the god Ningirsu incorporates two known types of lions/ the maneless one (the lioIl-headed eagle) and the one with long shaggy manes llions grasped by the winged creature; see the illustration on page 152).
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- Author
- Anson Rainey
- Publisher
- University of Chicago Press
- Published
- 1991
- Field
- Arts and Humanities (Social Sciences)