Iconographical Analysis and Iconological Interpretation of the Snake and Eagle Motif in the Jiroft Civilization (3rd Millennium BC)

Sangari, Esmaeil; Taheri Bakhtiarvand, Shaghayegh

doi:10.22059/jis.2025.393018.1341

Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

¹ Department of History, Faculty of literature and humanities, University of Isfahan, Isfahan, Iran

² Department of history, Faculty of Literature and Humanities, University of Isfahan, Isfahan, Iran

https://doi.org/10.22059/jis.2025.393018.1341

Abstract

In January 2001, a common surge within the southeastern area of Kerman, Iran, uncovered an obscure culture in Jiroft. The surge revealed artifacts that each uncover a covered up corner of the obscure culture of the people of Jiroft within the third thousand years BC. In spite of the disclosure of an obscure composing framework in Jiroft culture, the pictures utilized on the artifacts of this culture are of evident significance. Distinctive human, plant, creature, structural, and human-animal images are apparent on these artifacts. To get it and studied the existing images, the as it were way out is to examined the iconographic and iconological themes of the themes and compare these themes with the neighboring civilizations of the culture. Iconographic consider makes it conceivable to get to the scholarly substance, myths, and stories related to the themes. In differentiate, iconological consider will lead to an understanding of the genuine foundation of the discovered motifs in terms of time and put within the center of the society in address. One of the foremost common images utilized in Jiroft vessels is the motif of the fight of the hawk and the wind. The predominance of this picture within the craftsmanship of the obscure culture of Jiroft certainly contains covered up concepts that the Jiroft craftsman tries. In the research, reference has been made to the analysis of the images of the eagle and the snake in religious and literary texts such as Bondahesh and Kalīla wa Dimna. On the other hand, through a comparative study, the explanation of the said icon in neighboring civilizations of the Jiroft in the third millennium BC has been pointed out. The show inquire about, based on library assets and descriptive-analytical strategies, serious to look at this not-so-well-known culture through the investigation and translation of the theme in address

Keywords

https://doi.org/10.22059/jis.2025.393018.1341

Main Subjects

Archeology

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Volume 16, Issue 1May 2026Pages 47-68

Volume 16, Issue 1
May 2026
Pages 47-68