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Drawn by Faucher-Gudin, from an Assyrian intaglio · Public domain · a work of art, not a likeness

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Scorpion man

Akkadian mythological figure

Also called girtablilu

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Written the 2100s BCE
Epic of Gilgamesh
epic poem from Mesopotamia, is amongst the earliest surviving works of literature

After Lysippos · Public domain

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