{More Mesopotamian Symbols [continued (11)] – Bulls and Lions}[23rd December 1990]

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… ‘and bulls and lions placed antithetically* beside concave-sided squares. All these motifs … were borrowed from Assyria.’

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		?
G~		+		M~
Bull	J~		U~	Lion
		A~

**ibid [Encylopaedia of Visual Art 1:] 76, ‘Urartu’. 

[cf [Redbook8:127][19901220:0958]{Lions and Horns in Mesopotamia}[20th December 1990]]

(It is advisable to read the whole text, from which I have selected only interesting references)

[– Presumably, the text in Encylopaedia of Visual Art Volume 1, chapter 4; & the references in [Redbook8:150][19901223:1916]{More Mesopotamian Symbols – Rod and Line; Goddess and Lion}[23rd December 1990] to [Redbook8:152][19901223:1916o]{More Mesopotamian Symbols [continued (15)] – Phoenician Symbols}[23rd December 1990]]

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