B107 - TALL MUNBÂQA 1 - 2009.
Acrylic on canvas 30 x 140 cm – 12 x 55 inches
BABYLONIAN / (Text translated by Google) / Tall Munbâqa (Ekalte) is an ancient city in northern Syria, on the left bank of the Euphrates, having already existed in the 5th millennium BC and which was found in 1969 the remains of a city built on the ruins of old and from 3rd to 2nd millennium BC Among the clay tablets and terracotta statuettes that had been buried (probably in haste following a fire which completely destroyed the city?) and found by archaeologists , some with zoomorphic and anthropomorphic quite amazing. Throughout its existence, the city had willy-nilly a strong foreign influence, Hittite, Egyptian, Mitanni, and Assyrians Cassita. No other city in the period of Early and Middle Bronze offers such a wealth of information on the life of that time. This whole deal has determined the existence of these two tables Munbâqa Tall 1 & 2. It should be noted that the difficulty of interpreting the relevant documents, parts often in poor condition and freedom that I could take them to reappear was a factor no less important. This should be written to better understand what follows.
What do we see or believe that we see? From left to right: A seated goddess in the presence of an adoring him with an offering without any intermediary. Between them, a sacred symbol unidentified may be the attribute of the goddess? The goddess holds in her left hand a symbol of power, his right hand slightly raised her left breast which would relate to the grief of his beggar? The dog sat beside him could clarify this question, since a goddess of healing time had a dog as attribute (goddess GULA)! Following in the sky an undefined but often interpreted as a comet shooting. Followed by a seated god looking to the left and holding by the will of your namesake artist's monogram. Behind him on a carrier's eight-pointed star of Inanna. The goddess of love Inanna, front view chest bare and easily recognizable with its starry firmament which radiate. Beside him another symbol not found on a pillar. The second god sitting there appears to be the sister of the former, look to the right hand held an arched (which later became the emblem of royal power of the Assyrian kings), with his feet a new symbol totem can be older and not identified. Above the sacred symbol of recurrent glyptics Mesopotamian and sometimes interpreted as an eye? Following an old woman seer consults an astrologer who shows him with his left hand the Pleiades sky. If he sits, is necessarily a great man, which was the case at the time.
In another area, we find five characters also very interesting: first a woman priestess and a sacred symbol surmounted by an ostrich egg? (Ostriches were present in the deserts of Syria and Arabia until the 1960s). Then a naked goddess (winged) front view, which supports her breasts, another recurring image of Mesopotamia for several millennia. In this final table, two-man Bulls in double tails torturing a naked prisoner. NB important: if initially the two executioners were truly fantastic this hairstyle, by cons they lacked horns and more than ten thousand impressions Mesopotamian cylinder seals, the only case of anthropomorphism double-tails, has Conversely mythical animals that can have up to seven!
To conclude, I wish to state that the evidence gathered to paint this picture from a search conducted in the same place but from five separate rooms, each with a different cast of characters, from left to right: 2 + 3 + 2 +2 +3.
When the top edge was present on the shelves.
Astrologer-seer: Here is an example of what the assyrian astrologer BAYA has been said to his king: "Do not worry! O ASARHARDDON ! As a good pilot, I'll bring the ship into port. The future will be identical to the past. I'll surround you and protect you ! "