Investiture Painting

Investiture Painting. Mari
8510

Very end of the 19th century BCE. Limed mud plaster. H. 1.75 m; L. 2.60 m.

The side sections represent, as a symmetrical composition, a palm tree, a symbolic tree and a protective divinity in the form of the goddess lama with raised hands, and three superimposed fantastical beings: an androcephalous bull, a sphinx and a griffin.

Paris, musée du Louvre AO 19826. Photograph following conservation at the Centre d'Etude des Peintures Murales Romaines de Paris-Soissons (CNRS/ENS/APPA).

CEPMR, montage musée du Louvre 2003. Margueron 2004

CEPMR, montage musée du Louvre 2003. Margueron 2004

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