Re: More Birds
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Posted by: ancient beads Mail author
03/06/2010, 00:59:38

Hi Will & Jan
Very nice birds. Will your first birds are Sumerian from the Early Bronze Age 3300-2000 BC,representing Anzu, the lion-heded eagle, also known as Imdugud from the Mesopotamian mythology. Mid-3rd millennium BC.

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