Javier Álvarez-Mon. “The Storm-Gods of western Elam”

The Storm-Gods of western Elam examines glyptic evidence for storm gods in Elam during the second millennium BCE with the aim of identifying traits that could be considered distinctively Elamite and, more broadly, enhancing our understanding of the Elamite pantheon. The scope of the study is explicitly restricted to provenienced material and accounts for both iconography and inscriptions. For the “Old Elamite” Period (ca. 2000-1500 BCE) the evidence is mostly from Susa and three types are def..