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Earthenware relief from Khafaje, Iraq, dating at about 1800 B.C., representing a god (recognizable from the headdress adorned with horns) fighting against a figure with a beaming head and a single eye. The meaning is obscure, but it could be a representation of the god of the fertility of fields who defeats the impersonation of the heat of the summer sun withering the crops. The object is in the National Museum of Iraq, Baghdad.

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