{More Mesopotamian Symbols [continued] – Angelic Wings?}[23rd December 1990]

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‘Shamash, the sun god (identified by the rays emanating from his shoulders)* hands a rod and line **to Hammurabi – perhaps the tokens of divine authority for the king’s dispensation of justice.’

*cf angelic wings

**A~ – &?[:]

	C
	|	M~?}
	A~	{┘

&? G~ – M~?

(see illus[tration in:***↓])

***– ibid [Encylopaedia of Visual Art 1:] 66

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