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Ceramic stamp-seal amulets in the shape of the head of Pazuzu

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 August 2014

Ignacio Márquez Rowe
Ignacio Márquez Rowe*
Affiliation:
Instituto de Lenguas y Culturas del Mediterráneo y Oriente Próximo, CCHS — CSIC, Albasanz, 26–28, E-28037 Madrid, Spain, ignacio.marquez@cchs.csic.es
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Abstract

A new look at five stamp-seal amulets prompts the author to consider a particular type of Pazuzu-head amulet that has so far gone unnoticed and to publish for the first time the intaglio design on the reverse of one of them.

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Research Article
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IRAQ , Volume 71 , 2009 , pp. 151 - 159
Copyright
Copyright © The British Institute for the Study of Iraq 2010

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