Enkidu,_Gilgamesh's_friend._From_Ur,_Iraq._2027-1763_BCE._Iraq_Museum.jpg


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English: Terracotta wall panel depicting Enkidu, Gilgamesh's friend. He wears a horned helmet and his lower body is bull-like (not shown here). From Ur, Iraq. 2027-1763 BCE. On display at the Iraq Museum in Baghdad, Iraq. According to "Goddesses in Context: On Divine Powers, Roles, Relationships and Gender in Mesopotamian Textual and Visual Sources", 2013, this is a terracotta relief depicting a bull-man god holding a door post, height 61 cm. From Room 2 (courtyard), the jamb of the front door of "1 Church Lane Shrine" at Ur, Iraq.
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Author Osama Shukir Muhammed Amin FRCP(Glasg)

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