File:Bull-man protecting palmtree Louvre 14390-91.jpg

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English: Bull-man protecting a palmtree, detail from a panel of molded bricks (1940s reconstruction). Terracotta, middle 12th century BC. Found at the Tell of the Apadana in Susa. The inscription running along the central band record that Shilhak-Inshushinak made a statue of brick for the exterior chapel of Inshushinak.
Français : Homme-taureau protégeant un palmier. Panneau de briques moulées, terre cuite, milieu du XIIe siècle av. J.-C. Trouvé à Suse, dans le tell de l'Apadana (salle d'audience).
institution QS:P195,Q19675
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Department of Oriental Antiquities, Sully, ground floor, room 10
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Sb 14390 & Sb 14391
Credit line Excavated by Roland de Mecquenem, 1913–1921
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Prudence Oliver Harper, Joan Aruz, Françoise Tallon, The royal city of Susa: ancient Near Eastern treasures in the Louvre, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1992, ISBN 9780810964228, p. 282.

Daniel T. Potts, The archaeology of Elam: formation and transformation of an ancient Iranian state, World Archaeology Series, Cambridge University Press, 1999, ISBN 9780521564960, p. 240.
Source/Photographer Jastrow (2005)

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