A shard from a Hittite vessel with a depiction of a god (?) standing on a lion with a plant above lion's head. Museum of Anatolian Civilisations, Ankara, Turkey. I'd love to know what is the official interpretation of this artefact. Here's mine:
I think that the depicted plant is not just any plant. It's grain. Mesopotamian/Levantine symbol for grain. Some posts about the symbol for grain and the Mother of grain in Neolithic Europe, Central Asia, Mesopotamia, Iran, Levant: "Mother of grain", "Altyn Tepe mother of grain", "A person in a little boat", "Sabi Abyad venus", "Hathor grain pendants"...
Interestingly, in Anatolia, the grain harvest takes place in Jul/Aug, in Leo. Which is why, I think, the grain is depicted above the lion's head...I talked about grain/lion link in Anatolia in my posts "Eagle dude from Aleppo", "Bull god from Arslantepe", "Ulucinar stelae"
BTW, Leo (Jul/Aug), originally had nothing to do with stars either. It is the ancient animal calendar marker marking the beginning of the main mating season of the Asiatic lions. I talked about this in many of my posts...
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