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RRR 3000BC West Asia Mesopotamia Seal Bird Scorpion ESOTERIC Antiquity Artifact For Sale
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RRR 3000BC West Asia Mesopotamia Seal Bird Scorpion ESOTERIC Antiquity Artifact:
$332.00
Bifacial Stamp Seal of Green Stone, This is a nearly square plaque with vertical sides, pierced through the middle. The one side shows a Bird or Eagle, the other side a Scorpion'. This comes from west central Asia and dates to c. 3000-2000 B.C. It is a nice example of its kind and in very good condition.';
Symbolic representations of the scorpion are attested in Mesopotamia since the Neolithic Period on several artifacts, such as pottery, cylinder seals and stele. From the 6th to the 1st millennium BC a constant connection of this symbol with the fertility and its related goddesses - such as Ishkhara and Ishtar -, all identified with Venus, is attested. Furthermore, in the first known religious cuneiform texts, e.g. the Poem of Gilgamesh, the scorpion presents celestial attributes as well as in the later astronomical compendia it is clearly associated with the actual Scorpio constellation. Thanks to the analysis of both iconographical and philological sources dated from the Neolithic to the Iron Age, this paper aims to analyse the persistence of the symbol of the scorpion and its meaning in the Mesopotamian culture and religion, identifying the particular characteristic inherited by the Classical Age.
In ancient Mesopotamia, doves were prominent animal symbols of Inanna-Ishtar, the Goddess of love, sexuality, and war.[1][2] Doves are shown on cultic objects associated with Inanna as early as the beginning of the third millennium BC.[1] Lead dove figurines were discovered in the temple of Ishtar at Aššur, dating to the thirteenth century BC,[1] and a painted fresco from Mari, Syria shows a giant dove emerging from a palm tree in the temple of Ishtar,[2] indicating that the goddess herself was sometimes believed to take the form of a dove.[2]Larkin Collection
10mm for seal 33mm for entire stamp.
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RRR 3000BC West Asia Mesopotamia Seal Bird Scorpion ESOTERIC Antiquity Artifact $332.00
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