Limestone Block Showing Wrestlers and Musicians from Xanthos

Osama Shukir Muhammed Amin

by Osama Shukir Muhammed Amin
published on 12 May 2018

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Limestone Block Showing Wrestlers and Musicians from Xanthos — On the left, two men are wrestling while on the right there are two musicians; the musician on the left seems to play the lyre. Archaic Period, late 6th century BCE. From Xanthos, Kınık, in modern-day Turkey. (Museum of Archaeology, Istanbul, Turkey).

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Osama Shukir Muhammed Amin

Associate Professor of Neurology and lover of the Cradle of Civilization, Mesopotamia. I'm very interested in Mesopotamian history and always try to take photos of archaeological sites and artifacts in museums, both in Iraq and around the world.

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