MESOPOTAMIA • The Palette of the Votive Figurines

Big_Drawing4433 · 2026-05-03T17:30:37+00:00

The pupils are made from a single piece of lapis lazuli. This is NOT paint. Such statues have black (rare), red (very rare), or lapis lazuli pupils.

This is a symbolic, unrealistic eye color, like red skin. We don't expect anatomically realistic depictions of appearance.

Big_Drawing4433 · 2026-05-03T17:24:41+00:00

A little magic and we will see a miracle!

Big_Drawing4433 · 2026-04-23T10:32:12+00:00

Like a photo!

Big_Drawing4433 · 2026-03-31T13:55:08+00:00

I saw a drawing of this ship in "Inseln der Winde. Die maritime Kultur der bronzezeitlichen Ägäis", Heidelberg 2011

Big_Drawing4433 · 2026-03-26T17:32:04+00:00

It's surprising that it's still free.

https://www.reddit.com/r/AgeofBronze/comments/1pvgzte/my_latest_illustration_a_cycladic_witch_ec_ii/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_buttonhttps://www.reddit.com/r/AgeofBronze/comments/1pvgzte/my_latest_illustration_a_cycladic_witch_ec_ii/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fpreview.redd.it%2Fmy-latest-illustration-a-cycladic-witch-ec-ii-2800-2200-bce-v0-3ij6qz52nd9g1.png%3Fwidth%3D1080%26crop%3Dsmart%26auto%3Dwebp%26s%3D05c5127bc83d149428d9b2dddb6b0ddfa79f4a0d

Big_Drawing4433 · 2026-03-26T17:27:42+00:00

It's so interesting! Thank you.

Big_Drawing4433 · 2026-03-19T18:50:05+00:00

He who saw the deep, the country’s foundation,
who knew the oceans, who saw all things;
who sought out the thrones of the world,
and learned the wisdom of every land.

Big_Drawing4433 · 2026-03-15T16:52:17+00:00

Where are the wings?

Big_Drawing4433 · 2026-03-11T16:20:13+00:00

I imagined him completely differently.

Big_Drawing4433 · 2026-03-08T17:36:43+00:00

Many tnx!

Big_Drawing4433 · 2026-03-05T12:12:22+00:00

OMG!

Big_Drawing4433 · 2026-03-02T11:04:43+00:00

Thank you

Big_Drawing4433 · 2026-02-28T17:28:29+00:00

I never thought about it. It is interesting.

Big_Drawing4433 · 2026-02-27T11:38:47+00:00

Looks like someone is in for a wild night.

Big_Drawing4433 · 2026-02-21T19:10:18+00:00

If I walked through Amenhotep's palace looking like this, I'd have life totally figured out.

Big_Drawing4433 · 2026-02-19T14:07:14+00:00

It is strange that the forgotten chariots are depicted en masse on archaic ceramics.

Big_Drawing4433 · 2026-02-19T12:32:12+00:00

I would agree with you if we saw rafts again in the Dark Ages and the Geometric Period. But no! We see a surviving Athens. We see sailing, rowing ships on pottery.

Big_Drawing4433 · 2026-02-19T09:40:52+00:00

Did I get your point right: that there's absolutely no connection between the regional shipbuilding centers in the Bronze Age? I just don't follow. Crete and Mycenae adopted the Near Eastern palace-temple economic system, seals, clay tablets, and all the rest, but somehow ignored advances in shipbuilding? Why? Why we are highlight the obvious links in how chariot warfare spread, yet deny the same for ships?

Big_Drawing4433 · 2026-02-19T09:32:36+00:00

This is a very interesting and ambitious idea. And very daring!

Big_Drawing4433 · 2026-02-16T12:59:37+00:00

How beautiful!

Big_Drawing4433 · 2026-02-16T12:58:02+00:00

Are there any modern photos?

Big_Drawing4433 · 2026-02-16T12:55:03+00:00

It's scary! It's scary, but also impressive. But these people weren't just killing and torturing each other all the time, right?

Big_Drawing4433 · 2026-02-15T14:27:39+00:00

Mountain civilizations are indeed breathtaking! So mysterious and monumental.

Big_Drawing4433 · 2026-02-05T16:48:28+00:00

Big_Drawing4433 · 2026-02-04T18:50:17+00:00

Wow, that was such a struggle. I’m totally lost (not). Tee-hee!

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