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Mastering the Seven-Headed Serpent: A Stamp Seal from Hazor Provides a Missing Link Between Cuneiform and Biblical Mythology

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2024
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Uehlinger, C. (2024). Mastering the Seven-Headed Serpent: A Stamp Seal from Hazor Provides a Missing Link Between Cuneiform and Biblical Mythology. Near Eastern Archaeology, 87(1), 14–19. https://doi.org/10.1086/727582

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The Stamp Seals from the Southern Levant (SSSL) project is based on a comprehensive corpus, big data, and complex historical scenarios. Sometimes, though, an individual artifact stands out as a highlight in its own right. Such is the case with a stamp seal discovered recently at Tel Hazor. It is unusual in several respects, but mainly because of its spectacular base engraving. The main scene represents a hero fighting a coiled, sevenheaded serpent; it is enhanced by a series of mixed creatures and secondary motifs. This article offers

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87

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1

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14

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19

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Journal Article

Keywords

combat myth, dragon slayer, glyptic studies, iconography and religion, visible religion, Ninurta, Ba'al, Yahweh, Leviathan, ancient Israelite religion, Hebrew Bible, Ugarit, Canaan, Hazor

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Discipline-based scholarship (basic research)

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English

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2024-03-01

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2024-03-12

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1094-2076

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Green

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560 since deposited on 2024-03-12
539last week
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250 since deposited on 2024-03-12
249last week
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Uehlinger, C. (2024). Mastering the Seven-Headed Serpent: A Stamp Seal from Hazor Provides a Missing Link Between Cuneiform and Biblical Mythology. Near Eastern Archaeology, 87(1), 14–19. https://doi.org/10.1086/727582

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