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The warriors' new headgear

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Dirk Brandherm*
Affiliation:
*Ruhr-Universität, Institut für Archäologische Wissenschaften, Fach Ur- und Frühgeschichte, Universitätsstrasse 150 (GA 6/56-60), 44780 Bochum, Germany (Email: dirk.brandherm@ruhr-uni-bochum.de)

Extract

The important paper by S. Celestino Pérez and C. López-Ruiz that we published in 2006 (Antiquity 80: 89-101) suggested that the warrior slabs (stelae) with their horned-helmet motifs found in Iberia show iconographical influence from the bull-figures seen in the Levant in the early first millennium BC. This of course has important implications for the development of belief systems at either end of the Mediterranean. It was not to the taste of Dirk Brandherm who claims that the Iberian motifs are both different and earlier than any pre-echoes from the east. In a brief response the authors hold firmly to their thesis.

Type
Research article
Copyright
Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd 2008

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