Bicorporates: Decoding the origin and spread of the enigmatic images

This paper will focus on bicorporates, the enigmatic composite animals with one head and two bodies which have been left rather outside of scholastic attention. The first known bicorporates appeared on Mesopotamian cylinder seals around the third millennium BCE. They subsequently appeared in Minoan,...

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Main Author: Zakoji, Etsuko (Author)
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Published: American Anthropological Association 2023
In: Anthropology of consciousness
Year: 2023, Volume: 34, Issue: 2, Pages: 454-491
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