Javier Álvarez-Mon, with contributions by Gian Pietro Basello. “Like a Thunderstorm: Storm-Gods “Sibitti” Warriors from Highland Elam”

Abstract

In the early years of excavation at the Elamite lowland capital of Susa, the French archaeological mission headed by Jacques de Morgan uncovered a large decorated and inscribed bronze fragment (Sb 133, Musee du Louvre) in the Acropole mound, which is considered to have been the traditional religious zone of the site. This fragment, sometimes referred to as a “plaque”, preserves two registers of imagery in relief. The upper register depicts a row of (at least) seven near-identical armed male f...