Sumerian limestone bowl fragment with three ibex goats following a lion...3300-3100 BCE, Currently in the Detroit Institute of Arts...
What's all this about?
Well, I think, climate in Mesopotamia and annual lifecycle of the depicted animals...
I am so sorry only a fragment of this bowl has survived. But I could bet that the original bowl had
3 ibex goats, following 3 lions, following 3 bulls, following 3 leopards...
Why?
Check this post out. It is about a copper bowl from the same period and the same area...And about the climatic year in Sumer and Elam, and local Sumerian/Elamite animal calendar markers for the four seasons...
A Sumerian or Elamite Copper Bowl. Early 3rd Millennium B.C.E., H. 9.2 cm., D. 16.2 cm.
To read more about ancient animal and plant calendar markers, start here…Then check my twitter threads I still didn't convert to blog post...I am way way behind...
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