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Detail of the relief carved at the façade of the rock-cut tombs of Ashkawt-i Qizqapan (Kurdish: The Cave of the Ravisher or the Cave of the Raped/Abducted Girl). This roundel, of a god emblem, lies above the entrance into the main burial chamber and above the main relief of the standing men and altar. A bearded crowned man sits within a circle; the lower part of the circle is thickened and resembles a lunar crescent. He wears a long robe. The divine figure holds a barsom (a ritual object) with his right hand and the left palm faces upwards and a holds an oval object (it is not clear what this object is). He stands on or rises up from the lunar crescent. Median-Achaemenid Period, 600-550 BCE. Near Zarzi village and the Palaeolithic cave of Zarzi, Chemi Rezan Valley, Sulaymaniyah Governorate, Iraqi Kurdistan.
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Amin, O. S. M. (2018, January 23). God Roundel, Rock-Cut Tombs of Qizqapan. World History Encyclopedia. https://www.worldhistory.org/image/7991/god-roundel-rock-cut-tombs-of-qizqapan/
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Amin, Osama Shukir Muhammed. "God Roundel, Rock-Cut Tombs of Qizqapan." World History Encyclopedia, January 23, 2018. https://www.worldhistory.org/image/7991/god-roundel-rock-cut-tombs-of-qizqapan/.
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Amin, Osama Shukir Muhammed. "God Roundel, Rock-Cut Tombs of Qizqapan." World History Encyclopedia, 23 Jan 2018, https://www.worldhistory.org/image/7991/god-roundel-rock-cut-tombs-of-qizqapan/.
