| Original Message: Re: Mamuli, Anzu, Owls |
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Thanks, Jan, Yankee and Danny, That mamuli, Jan, is very nice indeed. The gold ones are hand to find, aren't they? Is there any way of dating them? And, Yankee, you have so many wonderful birds. Can you tell me more about the C7BCE glass ones "from Europe?" They look a bit like pigeons, too. Where in Europe? I think the Neolithic ones are my favourites; they're so perfectly simple in their lines. I'm sure you're right about my little shell beads and all your lapis birds being amulets of Anzu/Zu, the Sumerian lion-headed eagle. And yet they don't have any threat about them, no vengeful lion head at all, unlike this larger carving of him (it's in the Louvre; photo is public domain). And the agate owl, Danny, is very owlish and self-contained - lovely carving. Strange that there seem to be so relatively few owl beads, when the form of owls is so innately sculptural. Best, Will
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