02-08-2019, 06:59 PM
(02-08-2019, 05:39 PM)Koen G wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.To me it looks like her hair has been done up but some parts have come loose, i.e. disheveled. But I'm fine with "young woman".
Also, she has duck feet.
"In No. 4 it is evidently the sorcerer who is depicted, waving in his hand a magic bough. This is the use we find in Babylonian magic, in which a branch of the date palm or tamarisk was held aloft to repel the demons" Quote from the book 'Aramaic Incantation Texts from Nippur' by James A. Montgomery 1913
This is a picture of a You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. depiction from the bowls used in incantations or magical charms to ward off evil in the household and protect children. University of Pennsylvania "University Museum Babylonian section Vol. 3."
An explanation of why the pictures are rude designs: "The rude figures and designs which can hardly be said to ador the bowls are part of the praxis. They come down from the earlier and more realistic age when gods and demons were represented by simulacra and in this wise were manipulated so as to do the sorcerer's will" taken from the same book,.

