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Plate with Supernatural Being
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Plate with Supernatural Being

900–600 BCE

stone (probably steatite [soapstone])
CC0 — Public Domain
Cleveland Museum of Art

The supernatural figure on this small plate may be an apotheosis of the life-death cycle.

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