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Humbaba plaque

ID image taken by Sarah Berman, 05/2006

Humbaba plaque

2nd - 1st millennium B.C.

Babylonian (modern Iraq)

Amulets were popular as daily protections against harmful magic, particularly those depicting Humbaba-a mythical giant with a face of entrails-and animals like frogs, especially favored among the Babylonians.
Clay
Eugene Fuller Memorial Collection
41.97
ID image taken by Sarah Berman, 05/2006
location
Now on view at the Seattle Art Museum

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