Bär und Baum - Oso y Madroño. Kulturhistorische Betrachtung einer Motivtypengruppe im Alten Orient und in der Spanischen Heraldik

• Main Author: Stiehler-Alegría, Gisela
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: German
• Published: Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. Centro Superior de Estudios de Oriente Próximo y Egiptología 2017
• Subjects: Bear; Bear and fruit-bearing tree; Dancing bear; Typology; Middle Uruk period; Nimrud plate; Chlorite vessel; Great Lyre of Ur; Heraldry; Coat of arms of the city of Madrid; Constellation ursa major; Mayrit; Historia; Alten; Estrecho; Ursus arctos
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10486/678362

This paper investigates the typology and role of the brown bear, Ursus arctos, in the iconography of the Ancient Near East and Europe, with the aim of illuminating the special combination of the images “bear and tree” thematically. Though it focuses on the natural behaviours of the bears this motif...