ANIMAL HEAD WITH HUMAN BODY IN POST-PALEOLITHIC SCULPTURE

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ANIMAL HEAD WITH HUMAN BODY IN POST-PALEOLITHIC SCULPTURE

Fig. 10A1) Terracotta zooanthropomorphic sculpture. It has an animal head and human body and also expresses a sort of irony, in the movement of covering his eyes.
Size: small.
Origin: Mohenjo-daro, Indian Region.
Dating: Third millennium.

Fig. 10A2) Terracotta zooanthropomorphic sculpture. It has the head of an artistic hybrid man-animal, and the human body. Defined "demon" by scholars of Assyrian art.
Size: small.
Origin: Lagas (Tello).
Assyrian Art .

Fig. 10A3) Lithic zooanthropomorphic bas-relief. It represents a man with head of rapacious bird, and with the wings disposed in two different positions (according to an Assyrian art tradition), one downwards, and one upwards. It represents a "Genius".
Origin: Kalakh (Nimmud).
Dating: IX century BC.

Fig. 10A4) Lithic zooanthropomorphic sculpture. Hittite group. It depicts the God Atarluhas on two lions. Among them, a man with head of animal, or perhaps hybrid artistic with parts of several animals.
Origin: Karkemish, Turkey.

Fig. 10A8) Zooanthropomorphic sculpture. Divinity still in the cult. Very ancient worship.
It depicts a seated man with elephant head and four arms.
Location: Nepal.
Dating: XVI-XVII century DC.

Fig. 10A9) Zooanthropomorphic sculpture. One of the twenty-three forms of Shiva. Divinity still in the cult. Very ancient worship.
Shiva macaw.
It depicts a man with animal head. The style is very realistic; the representation of movement, which is a rarity in the art of all time, is also very effective.
Location: Patan, Nepal.
Dating: X century AD.

Fig. 10A10) Zooanthropomorphic sculpture. Divinity still in the cult.
Representation of the god Narasimha, fourth incarnation of the god Vishnu. Very ancient religion.
It depicts a seated man with a roaring lion's head, four arms, and a woman in his arms. The style is very realistic; and the expression is of movement.
Location: Changu Narayan, Nepal.
Dating: XII-XIII century AD.

Fig. 10Abis10) Wolf head with human body.
Plastic toy for children.
Height cm 27. Italy, 1985
In toys and comics, there are many subjects with animal head and human body, between the most knew, Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck.

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