Dumuzid
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Dumuzid, Dumuzi, or Tammuz, known to the Sumerians as Dumuzid the Shepherd and to the Canaanites as Adon, is an ancient Mesopotamian and Levantine deity associated with agriculture and shepherds, who
Ancient Sumerian depiction of the marriage of Inanna and Dumuzid
A bull man fighting four quadrupeds. Inscription "Ama-Ushumgal" (𒀭𒂼𒃲𒁔 dama-ušumgal), namesake of the mythical king or shepherd Dumuzi. Early Dynastic II, circa 2600 BC. Royal Museums of Art and History - Brussels.
Ancient Mesopotamian clay tablet dating to the Amorite Period (c. 2000-1600 BC), containing a lamentation over the death of Dumuzid, currently held in the Louvre Museum in Paris
Original Sumerian tablet of the Courtship of Inanna and Dumuzid
Adonis
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In Greek mythology, Adonis was the mortal lover of the goddesses Aphrodite and Persephone. He was considered to be the ideal of male beauty in classical antiquity.
Dumuzid
…in public, ritual mourning for him. The cult of Dumuzid later spread to the Levant and to Greece, where he became known under the West Semitic name Adonis. Tammuz is mentioned by name in the Book of Ezekiel (e.g., Ezek. 8:14–15) and possibly alluded to in other passages from the Hebrew Bible. In late…
The Adonis Uffizi, made from pentelic marble, 2nd century BC, currently held in the Uffizi Gallery, Florence, Italy
Antique fresco in Pompeii depicting Adonis, Cupid, and Venus
Fragment of an Attic red-figure wedding vase (c. 430–420 BC), showing women climbing ladders up to the roofs of their houses carrying "gardens of Adonis"
Attic red-figure aryballos painting by Aison (c. 410 BC) showing Adonis consorting with Aphrodite