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A Hakkari stele: An armed warrior man wearing a cap (1500-1000 BCE) Bronze Age anthropomorphic funerary stelae have been found in Saudi Arabia. There are similarities to the Kurgan type in the handling of the slab-like body with incised detail, though the treatment of the head is rather more realistic. [15]
Nordstrom suggested that the kitten be turned into a book itself, leading to Chalmers writing the first volume in her Harry the anthropomorphic kitten series, Throw A Kiss, Harry. By 1967 and several books into the series, along with other cat-focused books, Chalmers ended up owning ten cats and a Pomeranian dog . [ 3 ]
This book is mentioned in the novel The Time Traveler's Wife, much of which is set in the Newberry. [25] The National Library of Australia holds a 19th-century poetry book with the inscription "Bound in human skin" on the first page. [26] The binding was performed 'before 1890' and identified as human skin by pathologists in 1992. [27]
Anthropomorphic woman honorary stele, with breast A megalithic stelae field in Tiya. Man honorary stele, with swords A sword symbol on a stele at Tiya. Tiya is one of nine megalithic pillar sites in the Gurage Zone. As of 1997, 118 stelae were reported in the area.
The anthropomorphic being represented on the stela has, as Lumbreras describes it, serpent, eagle and feline attributes. This would be the message of shamanic transformation to which Burger refers. [ 33 ] [ 69 ] Likewise, given that the personage is carrying a San Pedro cactus in a ceremonial plaza, this fact accentuates the argument that "the ...
A copy of the stele in Edessa. The pig stele of Edessa is a Roman-era illustrated Greek funerary stele from the town of Edessa, Macedonia. The relief depicts a man on a four-wheeled chariot with four horses and two pigs, one under the wheel and one under the horse hooves. The inscription is dated to the second or third century CE and reads:
The poem runs to 6,574 lines of elegiac couplets. [4] The Ysengrimus is divided into seven books, which contain twelve or fourteen tales; opinions differ on how to divide them. Other beast fables were written by other medieval Latin authors, including Odo of Cheriton ; the Ysengrimus is the most extensive collection of this material either in ...
The Carpentras Stele is a stele found at Carpentras in southern France in 1704 that contains the first published inscription written in the Phoenician alphabet, and the first ever identified (a century later) as Aramaic. [2] [3] It remains in Carpentras, at the Bibliothèque Inguimbertine, in a "dark corner" on the first floor. [4]