Silver Babylonian Winged Bull

by Serge Averbukh

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$3,500

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48.000 x 48.000 inches

Title

Silver Babylonian Winged Bull

Artist

Serge Averbukh

Medium

Digital Art - Digital Painting

Description

Introducing 'Treasure Trove' by Serge Averbukh. Here you will find unique framed and wrapped canvas fine art prints, featuring an Ancient Assyrian Winged Bull, also known as Lamassu or less frequently - Shedu. It is a protective deity, often depicted with a bull or lion's body, eagle's wings, and human's head.
The lamassu is a celestial being from Mesopotamian mythology. The lamassu and shedu were household protective spirits of the common Babylonian people. Later during the Babylonian period they became the protectors of kings as well, always placed at the palace entrances. Statues of the bull-man were often used as gatekeepers. The Akkadians associated the god Papsukkal with Lamassu.
To protect houses, the Lamassu were engraved on clay tablets, which were then buried under the door's threshold. They were often placed as a pair at the entrance of palaces. At the entrance of cities, they were sculpted in colossal size, and placed as a pair, one at each side of the door of the city, that generally had doors in the surrounding wall, each one looking towards one of the cardinal points.

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November 29th, 2013

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