Figurine Fragment

CBS Register: fragment of terracotta figurine, bearded deity with two long curls of hair, primitive ears and symbol on his breast.

PBS XVI: Enkidu holding a huge weapon, emblem of a war god. The bullman may be the servant of Ishtar or of Nin-urtu. The emblem is a remarkable battle axe with a central club, a round stone head, between two curved blades ending in a lion’s head. Mace and scimitar are carried primitively in the left hand and in the right are combined in one weapon like a double-edged axe, often placed in the hands of war deities, and called by analogy a caduceus. The present weapon has not only two, but four curved blades, two small and two larger ones, round the central club. All end in lions’ heads. The lion, the king hunter, is the emblem of many war gods. It is hard to know whom of the great gods belongs the weapon in the hands of Enkidu. The animal ears, long locks and beard of Enkidu, and his missing horns, are in the good classical style of BC2400. molded plaque relief.

mold made figurine