Jinmenjuushinzo (English spelling) human-headed animal

Japanese: 人面獣身像 - じんめんじゅうしんぞう(英語表記)human‐headed animal
Jinmenjuushinzo (English spelling) human-headed animal
A composite image of a human head (human face) with the body and limbs of an animal. Examples can be found in many cultures since ancient times, but here we will only discuss those from ancient Mesopotamia. In Mesopotamia, monsters were created to embody superhuman beings, and from around the end of the Early Dynasty in the Sumerian state in the second half of the 3rd millennium BC, images combining a human face and a bull were carved into cylinder seals and other objects. This is understood to be the monster Enkidu who appears in the Epic of Gilgamesh. Thereafter, this type of being (a bull-shaped monster) was passed down through Akkad, and then into the art of Assyria and the Achaemenid Empire of Persia.

Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information

Japanese:
人間の頭部(人面)と動物の体軀・四肢との合成像。古来多くの文化に例を見るが,ここでは古代メソポタミアのものに限って記述する。メソポタミアでは超人間的な存在を具現化するために怪獣が創出され,前3千年紀後半のシュメール人の国家,初期王朝末期ごろから,人面と牡牛を組み合わせた像が円筒印章などに刻出された。これは《ギルガメシュ叙事詩》にあらわれる怪人エンキドゥEnkiduと解されている。以後,このような存在(牡牛形怪人)はアッカドを経て,アッシリア,アケメネス朝ペルシアの美術に継承された。

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