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Almost looks like this. If I did that right, it's a pair of Van de Graaff generators.

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Why can't people enjoy limbo without people thinking it's something nefarious!?

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It reminds me of the Solomon Columns.





The second picture, to me, even resembles the Sumerian one. The guy kneeling or sitting in the center and the other figure with his hands like he's praying or blessing him. The painting is called "Raphael, The Healing of the Lame Man"

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Here is a similar device, conical device with two spheres coming out of the base at angles. I dont think the tent canopy explains this.

Actually also looks like an electrical spark is jumping off the top !

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I sent the orginal image off to a Sumerian expert we'll see what she says.

In the mean time you can look at what meanings the Sumerian accorded to 'standards'

Sumerian standards

Originally posted by LUXUS
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Here is a similar device, conical device with two spheres coming out of the base at angles. I dont think the tent canopy explains this.

Actually also looks like an electrical spark is jumping off the top !

edit on 15-7-2012 by LUXUS because: (no reason given)

They surely look like they have electrical properties. People seem to think that electricity was invented recently but in reality its been around since the big bang. The ancients surely harnessed some form of electricity whether it was static, magnetic, or just plain ole lighting. I am sure this would of made it in to their works.

It is actually an impression taken from a cylinder.

Seals of the early first millennium B.C. in Babylonia and Assyria were carved in the linear, drilled, cut, and modeled styles. The modeled style illustrated here derives from earlier Middle Assyrian seal carving and from the modeled sculpture in the palace of Sargon II (r. 721–705 B.C.), king of Assyria at Khorsabad. This style was used predominantly on seals showing scenes of contest and worship. On this cylinder seal, a statue of the goddess Ishtar stands on a platform within a canopied enclosure. Ishtar is identified by crossed quivers, a starred crown, and stars encircling her body. Two winged genies protect the enclosure, while a kneeling figure worships.

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Nice job, kdog.

Nothing to see here. Not even swamp gas.

It looks to me like the figure is juggling.

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Could it simply be a festival or entertainment?

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Here is the information on that cylinder seal I received by email. So not Sumerian at all but Assyrian

fairly standard, its a Neo Assyrian (934BCE-609BCE), representation of the king of heaven, in this case it shows the two gods Tammuz and Gishzida either side who guard the gateway to Heaven. You can tell that straightaway because they both have wings, the Assyrians put wings on all their creatures of heaven, to show how they were able to travel there and Tammuz and Gishzida are always depicted as twins. The God Ashur, figure on left (king of heaven) who is surrounded by five stars representing the five known classical planets:-
Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn the two poles are Assyrian style standards, they are very distinctive, here is a better picture

...normally there is an image in the circular part, but this cylinder seal being only a couple of inches wide, it was just not possible for their artisans to fit an image in there. That is why the pole terminates in a point, because in real life that part was stuck into the ground. The human figure shown kneeling is a head priest (because he is bald), who is shown praising the king of heaven, the line with the semi circle is the roof of heaven. The entire flimsiness of the structure is supposed to remind the viewer of tents, which is a house that is capable of movement, which is how they imagined the heavens, never static, as above, so below

cylinder seals always represent well known aspects of mythology that were so popular to certain individuals that they used an image of them to sign/stamp their business contracts. They weren't the place to see experimental technology, because the image had to be known by the artisan who was commissioned to make it.

We thank Marduk for his rapid answer!

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Maybe someone should update the Metropolitan Museum of Art description of it,eh?

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Originally posted by kdog1982
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Maybe someone should update the Metropolitan Museum of Art description of it,eh?

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Good find Kdog1982

Well lol, let see what he has to say then the two descriptions differ over who the central figure is, is it Ishtar or the king of heaven?; let stand back and watch a the experts debate it (rather common in intrepretation of the meaning of ancient religion).

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How do you know they are Sumerian and not Assyrian? Unless you can read the language it is difficult for non-expert to tell.

I presume you are rejecting the explanation of standards then?

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I don't know if its Sumerian or Assyrian, I have noticed that Sumerian art is usually a little cruder then Assyrian art so that's my only reason for thinking so. Also they used many of the same symbols and had the same Gods so for me its not that important.

I am willing to accept that it is a devotee kneeling an the feet of a statue because I can now see the statue is on a raised platform. I'm interested to know how the expert would explain the spark jumping from the conical device and the poles which are depicted the same height as the Ziggurat with spheres on top.

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Hey Luxus I'm send you a PM where you can contact him yourself, let us know what he says please

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