An animal face in Ashurbanipal's reliefs (7th BC) ? Case study of the horse (Equus caballus Linnaeus, 1758) and lion (Panthera leo 1758). Following studies carried out by Pauline Albenda or Elena Cassin on human-animal relationship through figures 1758), this specifically questions facial features these two animals as well that human under reign Ashurbanipal (669-631/627 BC). The corpus consist...

Theories of knowledge such as feature lists, semantic networks, and localist neural nets typically use a single global symbol to represent a property that occurs in multiple concepts. Thus, a global symbol represents mane across HORSE, PONY, and LION. Alternatively, perceptual theories of knowledge, as well as distributed representational systems, assume that properties take different local for...

This article analyzes the scene of Sasanian king combating a lion in two rock reliefs. Most Bas-reliefs belong to first 150 years dynasty and most are located modern Fars province. The reliefs typically depict king’s investiture by deity (who is usually Ahurā Mazdā, but, some reliefs, Mithra or Anāhitā), with courtiers, his family, at war, triumph over enemies, fighting hunting wild animals. Tw...

This paper explores the ambiguous Persian Achaemenid attitude towards horse and lion. It examines way these animals appear in imperial official presentations, local artifacts throughout empire Greek textual representations. In case of stallion, it looks at imagery riding or place society religion alongside employment steeds chariots. Images lion are addressed instances where appears to be respe...

From his early years, Delacroix, like his contemporary Théodore Gericault, was attracted to the savagery of wild animals. In a note written in Morocco, Delacroix mentions a scene of fighting horses. Among the precedents for this kind of wild-animal imagery was the antique group “Lion Attacking a Horse” (Rome, Mus. Conserv.), which was said to have been particularly admired by Michelangelo and w...

although many archaeological evidences have not been found from the achaemenian period, the domain of findings of this period have increased day by bay. one of these evidences includes treasures and cultural findings which have been identified in thrace, situated in the balkan peninsula. this region was of great importance for the achaemenid empire because of its rich underground resources and ...

During the surface surveys conducted in Şanlıurfa recent years, a large number of reliefs dating back to timeframe from 2 th B.C. 1th were discovered. Dağyamacı reliefs, located 500 m east Harran Plain within Tek Mountains region, are Said unearthed at some quarry-like location. The location where discovered is only limestone quarry that has been dated region. Orthostatic relief sketches, embos...

Frederic Webster, chief preparator at the Carnegie Museum (CM) from 1897 to 1907, is credited by some for “rescuing” Lion Attacking a Dromedary (LAD) destruction American of Natural History. Webster's work on LAD was not his only involvement with preparation and display controversial bones, however. Webster mounted hide bones Confederate General Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson's war horse, Little So...