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This door sealing was in a part of the fire which left it burned green-black and in an almost complete condition. Three strands of the string impression are preserved. Three rollings were impressed on the outside (one crossing the other): possibly a fourth rolling is visible in the upper portion of the widest part of the door sealing. Design: Nude hero with straight hair in upstanding tufts holding two homed(?) animals by their beards. This type of nude hero can appear in two different positions: either as a master of animals between two animals he is dominating, as in our impression and Amiet, 1961 P1. 70926 (ED 11), or in an animal combat scene where he appears (e.g. ibid. P1. 76:1003, ED 111). Both these aspects continue into early Akkadian art. (See Prag 1969 Fig. 5 for an ED I1 representation of a “master of animals” from Harran.) [Input: ZJ226_rL_si.j] |