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Ibra, the Indus Chimera | Seal M-300 Reimagined

by naeemahmedrasheed

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Licence	CC BY
Source	Sketchfab
Designer	naeemahmedrasheed
Attribution	naeemahmedrasheed on Sketchfab · CC-BY 4.0 (attribution required) · Attribution required
Tags	elephant, ancient, bronze, tiger, cobra, valley, bull, india, hybrid, seal, mythology, age

Human face. Bull horns. Elephant trunk. Tiger hindquarters. Cobra tail. A 3D reconstruction of the composite creature on Indus seal M-300, found at Mohenjo-daro. Scholars read its parts as human, humped bull, elephant, tiger, cobra and markhor (Frenez and Vidale 2012). Some details are debated: the forelegs are read as markhor by Frenez and Vidale and as bovine by Mackay. This model follows Mackay's bovine reading. These identifications are interpretations of a worn carving, and the creature's meaning is unknown. The Indus script remains undeciphered. Name: Ibra, after a possible link to "(..)ibra, man of Meluhha", a partly broken name in a Mesopotamian inscription from Naram-Sin's reign. Reference: Frenez, D. and Vidale, M. 2012, "Harappan Chimaeras as Symbolic Hypertexts", South Asian Studies 28(2): 107-130.

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