Sculpture, Museum of Anatolian Civilisations, Ankara, Turkey
Killing of Humbaba, protective god of the cedar forests, by Gilgamesh and Enkidu, who hold him and stab him with a dagger, bas-relief, Hittite, 900-700 BC, on an orthostat from the Herald's Wall at Carchemish, Gaziantep, Neo-Hittite period 900-700 BC, in the Museum of Anatolian Civilisations, founded 1921 by Ataturk, in Ankara, Turkey. The ceremonial Herald's Wall features reliefs of military processions, lions and mythological creatures. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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