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Maggie wrote: >The picture is too dark. I can't see the details of the face and the wings. >Need better pictures Farid. ...that is NOT the piece!!!! Jesus H Ashur!!! That's the small Lamasu, not EVEN the same sculpture!!! I made that piece years ago. That's the one whose balls got ground off for Jackie. I made it ten years ago!!!!! I was at the foundry all day watching and helping them finish the REAL Allaha Ashur...we weren't able to finish it all in one day...I'm going back tomorrow and we'll definitely get it done, with a patina and mounted on black granite...but I gotta say...welded all together, with the bow in place and the halo all around him..he looks magnificent... Such a powerful piece...I think this one is more representative of the Assyrians than the Lamasu...which can take second place...the reason it hasn't received the attention, I think, is because we have no remnant of it AS sculpture...only as a small wall painting and one poorly executed bas-relief...whereas there are many fine examples of Lamasus uncovered...but clearly, the human figure tells the story better...the wings of the eagle are there...and the horns are represented in the helmet...but god love those human muscles!!! People complained when I neglected to place an arrow in the king's hand in the "Chariot of Ashurnasirpal". There isn't one in the bas-relief and so I didn't include one in the sculpture...but customers WANT their arrows. The representations of the Allaha-Ashur also don't show an arrow...the bow is pulled back as if to shoot...but where's the arrow? people have said...even people like Narsai who ought to know better, that this sculpture is a poor choice to represent us because it has "violent" overtones...overtones a gelded Lamasu does NOT have. Like, America is SUCH a peace-loving nation we shouldn't offend its pacifist sensibilities...yeah right...GI JOE! To the Chaldeans, what we call Allaha-Ashur is the sun god, Shimish, or Shamash. The Egyptians have a Solar Disc sculpture with what appear to be arrows in place of the sun's rays shooting out from the circumference....but they aren't arrows, regardless of their pointed tips...they're rays from the sun showering the earth with divine light...of course there's a double meaning...mess with Nature, or the King...and benefits will turn to harm...I don't believe Ashur is shooting an arrow...I think it's a shaft of sunlight and it's left the bow already...even though the bow remains fully drawn...we had miracles too. maybe tomorrow...can't wait for an art appraisla from the grairs, Jassim, Hanna and the rest of the piss-green boys. --------------------- |
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