Saturday, 31 December 2022

{More Mesopotamian Symbols [continued (9)] – Sun Disk}[23rd December 1990]

[Redbook8:151][19901223:1916i]{More Mesopotamian Symbols [continued (9)] – Sun Disk}[23rd December 1990]


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‘On many * royal stamp seals... the king is shown beneath the borrowed winged sun-disk,** guided under the protecting arm of his tutelary deity.’

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*(Hittite)


**{cf haloes}


*** – ibid [Encylopaedia of Visual Art 1:] 74-75



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