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“Reliefs
The handle of the knife is carved on both sides with finely executed figures arranged in five horizontal registers. The opposite side of the handle shows Mesopotamian influence[19] featuring the Master of Animals motif, very common in Mesopotamian art, in the form of a figure wearing Mesopotamian clothing flanked by two upright lions symbolising the Morning and Evening Stars (now both identified with the planet Venus). Robert du Mesnil du Buisson said the central figure is the god El.[20] David Rohl identifies him with Meskiagkasher (Biblical Cush),[21] who "journeyed upon the sea and came ashore at the mountains".[22]Nicolas Grimal refrains from speculating on the identity of the ambiguous figure, referring to it as a "warrior".[23] Modern scholarship generally attributes the back reliefs to Mesopotamian influence, and more specifically attribute the design of the clothed wrestler to the Mesopotamian "priest-king" Master of Animals images of the Late Uruk period.
This side of the handle also contains a "knob", a perforated suspension lug that would have supported the knife handle, keeping it level while resting on a level surface and also could have been used to thread a cord to hang it from the body as an ornament.”
>> Notice: “journeyed upon the sea and came ashore at the mountains”. Doesn’t that fit perfectly with Utnapishtin and Noah’s Ark resting on Mt. Ararat? Even though we’ve already finished the Mesopotamian section, once I’m done with this knife I’m going to take a look at the connection. I know I’m going to end up with the same findings, but it’s an additional evidence I want to add it with the rest.
“Similar knives
Today a total of 17 similar ceremonial knives with decorated handles are known. These knives comprise:
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The ritual knife of the Brooklyn Museum, discovered by Jacques de Morgan in the Tomb 32 at Abu Zeidan near Edfu, and similar in size to the Gebel el-Arak knife. The handle of the knife, made of elephant ivory, is decorated with 227 animals carved in 10 registers on both faces.[28] The figures are tightly packed and entirely cover the handle. They represent real animals, all depicted at approximatively the same size and arranged in processions by species: elephants (some walking on snakes), storks, lions, oryxes and bovids. Other less common animals interrupt the processions: a giraffe, a heron, a bustard and a dog chasing after an oryx. Finally, two electric cat fishes are represented on the outer margin of the handle. The only non-animal figure is a rosette, a royal symbol of mesopotamian origin found on Egyptian artifacts of the predynastic period and until the 1st dynasty, such as the Scorpion Macehead and Narmer palette.[1] The decoration of the handle is very similar to that of a predynastic hair comb, on display at the Metropolitan Museum of
>> Anyone apart me notice Jacques De Morgan.
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