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Babylonian figurines from Samos (1)

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06 Visual arts and architecture
06 Visual arts and architecture
06 Visual arts and architecture

 		Keywords
bronze figurines
dog with man
Samos
Period
8th century BCE
7th century BCE 		Channel
Iconographic tradition

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There are some bronze figurines from Samos (Greece) which could have been of Babylonian origin. The most distinctive are figures of a standing bearded man with a dog sitting at his left side (three in total from Samos). In Mesopotamia, such statuettes have been found in Nippur, Isin and Susa and seemed to have had an apotropaic function.

Bibliography

Braun-Holzinger 1984Braun-Holzinger, Eva Andrea. Figürliche Bronzen aus Mesopotamien. Prähistorische Bronzefunde Abteilung 1, Menschen- und Tierfiguren 4. München: Beck 1984.
Braun-Holzinger 1988Braun-Holzinger, Eva Andrea. “Bronze Objects from Babylonia.” In: Curtis, J. E (ed.). Bronzeworking Centres of Western Asia c. 1000-539 B.C. London: Kegan Paul International in association with the British Museum 1988, 119-134.
Braun-Holzinger and Rehm 2005Braun-Holzinger, Eva Andrea and Ellen Rehm. Orientalischer Import in Griechenland im frühen 1. Jahrtausend v.Chr. Alter Orient und Altes Testament 328. Münster: Ugarit-Verlag 2005.
Curtis 1994Curtis, J. E. “Mesopotamian bronzes from Greek sites. The workshops of origin.” Iraq 65 (1994) 1-25. [JSTOR (requires subscription)]

Links (external links will open in a new browser window)
Cf. Hera’s cult on Samos (1)
Cf. Assyrian statuettes and figurines from Samos (1)
Cf. Bronze figurine of Mušhuššu on Samos (1)

Christina Tsouparopoulou


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Fig. 1: Bronze group of a man and a dog from Samos (B2086). Photos courtesy of Deutsches Archaologisches Institut, Athens (taken from Curtis 1994).
Fig. 2: Bronze group of a man and a dog from Samos (B2087). Photos courtesy of Deutsches Archaologisches Institut, Athens (taken from Curtis 1994).
Fig. 3: Figurine of a standing man with a dog from Nippur (taken from Braun-Holzinger and Rehm 2005, pl. 19c).

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