Iconography

ERANOS ARCHIVE

39-40. Fish Symbolism

PRE-CLASSICAL ICONOGRAPHY

Western Asia / Religious Iconography / Priests / Priests in fish costume

Further details

Eranos Archive 39/8 Image from Eisler, R. (1921) Orpheus-the Fisher. Comparative studies in Orphic and early Christian cult symbolism ... With ... plates. London: J. M. Watkins. Plaster cast of a figure on a bell.

Artist or creator

Assyrian

Date

900 BC - 800 BC

Location

Berlin, Staatliche Museen (Before World War II in Vorderasiatische Abteilung)

Notes on photograph

Collection

Eranos Archive presented by Olga Froebe-Kapteyn

Contact

For comments or queries, please contact photographic.collect@sas.ac.uk
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