{Etana}[22nd December 1990]

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‘On some seals a man shown sitting on an eagle can be identified as Etana, who was taken to heaven on an eagle* he had rescued from a pit, in order to secure the plant of birth.... The legend (of which we do not know the end) is familiar only from later sources, but was probably current at this time.’

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{cf Ganymede, re R~}

**– ibid [Encylopaedia of Visual Art 1:] 64

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