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To: Grimmy
I doubt there's any way of telling what the various scenes represent, not without knowing the myths or legends of the culture.

The bowl’s repoussé and chased decoration depicts several complex figural scenes, mostly mythological. The origin and precise meaning of the pictorial scenes have been the subject of scholarly debate. No written language is preserved from Hasanlu and archaeologists have yet to identify the ethnic background of the site’s inhabitants. Various interpretations of the mythological scenes place their origins in Urartian, Hurrian, and/or Indo-European traditions

Hasanlu in the Iron Age. Source

12 posted on 03/30/2019 8:01:29 PM PDT by Fred Nerks (FAIR DINKUM)
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To: Fred Nerks

So, ok then.

It’s the Hydra’s woodchipper that the one guy is being fed into, and the other guy is the Puncher of Escape Attempters.

Solved it.


13 posted on 03/30/2019 8:08:49 PM PDT by Grimmy (equivocation is but the first step along the road to capitulation)
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