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Svenska: Illustration från "Illustrerad verldshistoria utgifven av E. Wallis. band I" Fiskguden Dagon .

The Dagon bas-relief from Nimrud, discovered by Austen Henry Layard in 1845/7.

Dagon is shown "with the fish's head as a cap and the body of the fish depending over his shoulders, his legs those of a man, in his left hand holding a richly decorated bag, and his right hand upraised, as if in the act of presenting the mystic Assyrian fir-cone (British Museum, Nos. 29 and 30)."
English: Illustration from "Illustrerad verldshistoria utgifven av E. Wallis. volume I": The fish-god Dagon
Date
Source Illustrerad verldshistoria, volume I, p. 73
Author Ernst Wallis (ed.)
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Public domain This image is from Illustrerad Verldshistoria by Ernst Wallis et al, published 1875-9. The copyrights have expired and this image is in the public domain .
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This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published (or registered with the U.S. Copyright Office ) before January 1, 1929.
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