How the dizzying repetition of these Assyrian reliefs gives them hyperreality | Art, Explained
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- Опубліковано 17 вер 2013
- "That infinite image creates an endless echoing, which is almost dizzying and supernatural."
Curator Kim Benzel on an Assyrian relief panel.
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Amazing! Thanks!
Wow amazing
Im sorry but since i was a child i tbought these were perfectiom. Mesmerizing more than any piece of modern art. I hate how dismissive previous scholars are just becuade they dont fancy the artistry themselves
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They are holding something that looks like a pine cone and carrying what looks like a little purse. Any answers?
The cone and bag/bucket are part of a ritual by a protective spirit. Their Akkadian names are mullilu (purifier) and banduddu (bucket)
well 0:30 looks like a wristwatch 😅
Cannabis, poppies, etc
Assyrian king Ashur Nasirpol 900 BCE.
Thank you! I thought she was butchering Ashurbanipal!
Nearly six million Assyrian Christians dot the world.
Mesopotamia is the homeland of the Assyrians. The famous royal cities of the Assyrians, Ashur, Nimrud (Kalhu), Arbela, Dur-Sharrukin and Nineveh were built in it. The Assyrians ruled for approximately 1,300 years - from about 2000 B.C. to 612/10 BC - in northern Mesopotamia an ancient landscape between the Euphrates and Tigris rivers. A clear reference to the existence of the Assyrians, on the other hand, can already be found in the Old Testament (1st Book of Moses 2:14).
There it says:
* “… the name of the third river is the Tigris, which flows east of Assyria. The fourth river is the Euphrates..."
One day we will return to our country. Assyria belongs to the Assyrians. Isaiah 19:23-25
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