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Jabra Ibrahim Jabra's Adonis or Tammuz (translation of Frazer's Golden Bough)

Thomas Thompson January 6, 2017

The cover of the 1979 second edition of Jabra's translation of selections from James Frazer's The Golden Bough. The painting features a fertility goddess giving birth to herself. To her right--our left, a bird (a phoenix?) contains a smaller version—with different colored plumage--inside itself. 

Tags Iraq, 1970s, Translation, Painting
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