 | Richard L. Zettler, Lee Horne, Donald P. Hansen, Holly Pittman - 1998 - 234 דפים
...represented at the same time, but usually a combination of grappling wild and domestic beasts was depicted. A heroic figure, or even a bull-man, either grasps...comprehended on different levels with different nuances of meaning. The contest scene was an apt choice for royal seals. It appears on the Royal Cemetery seals... | |
 | Andrew C. Cohen - 2005 - 267 דפים
...dagger with which he is about to eviscerate the animal. Hansen interpreted the scene as reflecting "the eternal and cyclical battle against chaos, between...the vagaries of nature, between the known and the unknown."100 The occurrence of this scene on seals in RTC graves, which not coincidentally are typically... | |
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A heroic figure, or even a bull-man, either grasps an animal, holds it aloft upside down, or plunges a dagger into its body. The violent action is always shown in progress; the outcome is not in evidence; no one wins. This grouping of figures reflects... 