B143 - SEAL OF BEL-MUSHALLIM, WHICH REMOVES THIS SEAL, RISK OF LOSING THE SHAMASH'S PROTECTION ! - 2010.
Acrylic on canvas - Curved Frame - 127 x 85cm.

BABYLONIAN / ( Text translated by Google) / Sumerian myth in the flood well before that of the Bible, the god Shamash appears in a boat and back light after the storm! As Shamash the rising sun, whose ceiling is the sky that contains the bark of the sun! We know from "The Epic of Gilgamesh” Shamash the boatman called Urshanabi (half man, half-boat). The snake boat is an ally against the hardships facing the God to defeat the forces opposed to the light! In the poem "A Babylonian epic", it is expressly said that no one outside of Shamash, can not cross the sea! On the deck of the boat, the anthropomorphic with for legs was initially a sad old bearded and not a woman. When the many sacred attributes above the characters, their meaning remains mysterious, except for the Philhelm’s monogram (which was added by your iconoclastic artist) under the cuneiform inscription, whose literal translation is "Seal of Bel- Mushallim *, which removes the seal, risk losing the protection of Shamash! "
* "Bel" in Akkadian = Master / Lord
SHAMAS: Šamaš otherwise transliterated, is the Akkadian name of the god Sun and Justice in the Mesopotamian pantheon. The Sumerians called UTU. It occupies a small secondary position in the divine hierarchy in relation to moon god Sin. This inferiority is explained most likely by the rule of the lunar calendar on the solar calendar. However, both astral deities were made very early in the architecture. Thus the temple of Shamash frequently adjoins that of Sin in the Assyrian worship sets, evoking the attempted matching of two calendrical systems. In most cases, justice was attributed to Shamash. Just as the sun disperses the darkness into the light Shamash exposes the evil and injustice. Hammurabi's Code established under the auspices of Shamash, the inspirer of laws, and on the same collection, the king is represented as the sun god worshiper. Several centuries before him, the king Ur-Enguera the dynasty of Ur (c. 2600 years BC.) declared that he rendered decisions "according to the just laws of UTU". In the Mesopotamian mentality, this function of justice can be logically linking with the healing. Shamash is in fact the one who frees humans from the clutches of demons. The devotee patient may appeal to Shamash for the issue of suffering he sees as unjust, as evidenced by the hymns to the sun god. Shamash was gradually eclipsed by absorbing all other gods of the sun. In the pantheon systematized, the other sun-gods become servants, or particular aspects of the main deity. The sun god Shamash was also able to see everything, so He was so involved in matters of justice and divination as UTU predecessor. This role directly involved in the political and social decisions taken by the Kings. Its symbol is a disc featuring a four-pointed star separated by bundles of wavy rays. It is characterized by monuments on the flames that rise above his shoulders.
"THE EPIC OF GILGAMESH” : is a legendary tale of ancient Mesopotamia (modern Iraq). As one of the oldest literary works of humanity, the first known full version was written in Akkadian in the eighteenth century BC Babylonia. AD or seventeenth century BC., written in cuneiform on clay tablets, it inspired many stories, especially Sumerian, composed towards the end of the third millennium, it is closer to "Enki and Ninhursag" of "Enuma Elish" (when on high...) and "Atrahasis" (Poem of Supersage). Its origin myths whose main character King Gilgamesh, the fifth king (perhaps legendary) of the first dynasty of Uruk (generally dated from the time protodynastic III to -2700, -2500), by Sumerian King List composed during the First Dynasty of Isin (-2017, -1794). According to one view of Assyriologists the story of the Deluge, inspired by the Babylonian Epic of Atrahasis or "Poem of Supersage" was added to -1200, to form the text "standard", comprising eleven tablets of the Assyrian-Babylonian epic. The twelfth tablet translation of the second half of the Sumerian tale "Gilgamesh, Enkidu and the grave" has been added to-700.They are cuneiform tablets from the eighth century BC. BC found in excavations in the library of King Ashurbanipal at Nineveh, which have unveiled the world in the 1870, notably from the passage about the flood, which caused a sensation at the time. This epic was a great success in the Ancient Near East, and copies have been found in sites spread over a large area, Mesopotamia, Syria, and Anatolia, and is evidenced even in the Qumran texts, shortly before the Christian era. It had been translated into Hittite and Hurrian. The sources are the Sumerian, Babylonian, Assyrian, Hittite and Hurrian. The tablets are first translated by George Smith, a colleague of Henry Rawlinson. Recent work closer to the Gilgamesh epic of the 12 Labours of Heracles (the Greek counterpart of Roman hero Hercules), the Babylonian legend as previous close 1000 years to the writings of Homer.
"A BABYLONIAN EPIC” or Enuma Elish : (If above ...) is the Babylonian epic of creation of the world. The text was discovered in the nineteenth century in the form of fragments in the ruins of the library of Ashurbanipal at Nineveh (near Mosul today's Iraq). This version of the epic, which probably dates from the thirteenth century BC. It is composed of seven clay tablets covered with cuneiform writing. The greater part of the fifth tablet has never been found. Apart from this shortcoming, the text is almost complete. The epic describes the rise of Marduk, patron god of Babylon, above other Mesopotamian deity and the creation of the world and man. There are various versions Enuma Elish of the oldest dating probably from the second millennium BC.