| Wall Plaque Carved with Feasting Scene, stone, Found in Nippur.
From the Early Dynastic - Southern Mesopotamian Period, 2350
BCE - 2900 BCE
Wall plaques were found in several Early Dynastic temples in various Mesopotamian
locations, from Ur to Khafaje and Nippur, and although their exact function
is unknown, one has been found with an inscription stating it was for
support of a mace (commonly offered in temples). The scenes on the plaques
usually represent a feast, such as the example above, but the feasts have
been interpreted as being votive meaning done or given to fulfil a vow
or promise in nature, rather than celebratory. Orthmann, Winfred. Der
Alte Oriente. Berlin: Propylaen, 1975, pl 79b.
Note the figure with the left foot bare holding the flag a symbolic
square can mean restraint, the four corners of the world and the cross
can interpret as religious.
The symbolic fish in Jewish symbolises to have your eye's open in
fear since fish cannot close there eyes
of which two figures are drinking upon, the middle figures is sitting
on a kid ram goat and a adult raised ram goat is set upon by a lion
representing war and fear . One figure has his leg bear as standing
for purity, this showing of one leg bear is also done in the oldest
secret society organisation of present day freemasons
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