Das Flut-Ungeheuer abūbu

Seidl, Ursula

doi:10.1515/zava.1998.88.1.100

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“… 27 A winged cosmic creature, symbol of the flood, with a horned lion's head, lion's forepaws, the hind feet of a bird of prey, and a characteristic wedge-shaped tail (Seidl 1998). …”

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Irrigation and Landscape Commemoration in Northern Assyria, the Assyrian Canal and Rock Reliefs in Faida (Kurdistan Region of Iraq): Preliminary Report on the 2019 Field Season

Bonacossi¹,

Qasim²

2022

Iraq

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This article presents the preliminary results of the joint Kurdish-Italian Faida Archaeological Project (KIFAP) conducted by the Duhok Directorate of Antiquities and the University of Udine at the Assyrian Faida canal and rock art complex in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq. Investigation of this extraordinary and seriously endangered archaeological site was launched in 2019 and has led to the exploration of an 8.6 km-long irrigation canal cut into the limestone bedrock of the Chiya Daka hill range in the outskirts of the village of Faida, south of Duhok. Ten monumental sculpted rock panels carved along the canal's eastern bank were brought to light, representing an Assyrian ruler depicted at both ends of each panel, framing the cult statues of seven deities standing on pedestals shaped like striding animals. This article discusses the canal's role in the wider context of the Northern Assyrian Irrigation System and the function of the Assyrian hydraulic networks as economic infrastructures with transformative effects on the landscape and staple food production of the empire's core. The Faida bas-reliefs are examined from an archaeological and art historical perspective, and hypotheses are proposed about their religious and ideological meaning, as well as their dating and the identity of the king or kings who commissioned them.

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“… 27 A winged cosmic creature, symbol of the flood, with a horned lion's head, lion's forepaws, the hind feet of a bird of prey, and a characteristic wedge-shaped tail (Seidl 1998). …”

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