The Metamorphosis of Cow-man Motif in the Art of Lorestan and Mesopotamia from the 2nd to the 1st Millennium B C

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Mahmoodi Mandana; SODAEI BITA

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Journal: Year:2023 | Volume:1 | Issue:2 Page(s): 1-15

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The Metamorphosis of Cow-man Motif in the Art of Lorestan and Mesopotamia from the 2nd to the 1st Millennium B C

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Mahmoodi Mandana | SODAEI BITA | Issue Writer Certificate

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Cow-Man

Horn

Bronzes of Lorestan

Mesopotamia

Symbols

Abstract

Lorestan is a mountainous region in the east of Mesopotamia which achieved the highest levels of metallurgy in the 8th and 7th centuries BC. The bronze works of Lorestan in this period included the mixed roles of imaginary creatures, which, while being beautiful, were formed on the basis of deep beliefs and expressed the common beliefs in the region. Therefore, in order to accurately understand the motifs and their meaning, it is necessary to study the paintings symbologically. One of the recurring mythological images in the art of the ancient societies of Lorestan and Mesopotamia is the motif of a Cow-Man. Since the motifs in works of art represent common beliefs and faiths among the people of ancient times, it is necessary to study them in order to understand the religious ideology of ancient societies. The purpose of this research is to identify the visual relationship between the role of Cow-Man motifs in the ancient art of Lorestan and Mesopotamia in order to examine their development and the evolutionary process of religious ideas in the art of the concerned societies. The study is based on archaeological evidence. The method of this research is descriptive and comparative and it collects library resources (documents and electronic). The pictures were accessed through the museum and the museum’, s website. The results show that the Cow-Man figure is a symbol of the primitive gods of ancient societies which entered the art of modern societies due to the beliefs of Animism and Totemism. Overtime, with the expansion of human thought and awareness, we witness a change in the way they are represented in the sense that in the images of both societies, the animal’, s head and body are gradually disappearing in pale patterns, and the images of the gods are displayed in a realistic and human form,the Horn remains as a divine symbol of power in the headdress of the gods, and their difference is in the way they are performed which is derived from regional beliefs.

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Mahmoodi, Mandana, & SODAEI, BITA. (2023). The Metamorphosis of Cow-man Motif in the Art of Lorestan and Mesopotamia from the 2nd to the 1st Millennium B C. JOURNAL OF INTERDISCIPLINARY STUDIES OF VISUAL ARTS, 1(2 ), 1-15. SID. https://sid.ir/paper/1040251/en

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Mahmoodi Mandana, SODAEI BITA. The Metamorphosis of Cow-man Motif in the Art of Lorestan and Mesopotamia from the 2nd to the 1st Millennium B C. JOURNAL OF INTERDISCIPLINARY STUDIES OF VISUAL ARTS[Internet]. 2023;1(2 ):1-15. Available from: https://sid.ir/paper/1040251/en

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Mandana Mahmoodi, and BITA SODAEI, “The Metamorphosis of Cow-man Motif in the Art of Lorestan and Mesopotamia from the 2nd to the 1st Millennium B C,” JOURNAL OF INTERDISCIPLINARY STUDIES OF VISUAL ARTS, vol. 1, no. 2 , pp. 1–15, 2023, [Online]. Available: https://sid.ir/paper/1040251/en

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