medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
From: Genevra Kornbluth <[log in to unmask]>
>Perhaps next time there will not be a general strike in progress, and more
rooms will be open.
well, you can do it that way if you want to, but i would think that waiting
for a greveless France will be a long wait.
> About the BM Gudea http://www.kornbluthphoto.com/images/Gudea2.jpg
> The figure was probably fairly standard originally, perhaps something like
one of these (though as you can see from the [carefully made anonymous] guard,
unusually large)
> http://www.lessing-photo.com/dispimg.asp?i=08020412+&cr=8&cl=1
> Presumably after Gudea himself was no longer around to object, and the
statue was lying on its back, people used the stone as a mortar to grind
grain. Each of the concavities that have destroyed all but the original
feet appears to be the result of long grinding with a pestle.
ahhh... *that* explains it.
i was having trouble trying to figure out what a 3rd millennium (even a *late*
3rd m.) sculptor was doing, turning out something that ended up like the
figure you shot.
looked like some sort of Post-Modren Something or Other pastiche, with all
those "abstract" concavities on it --obviously not an unfinished piece, but
just one which was "finished" in a very, very peculiar way.
thanks for the explanation.
c
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