The Inside Assyria Discussion Forum #5

=> Re: Ashurbanipal Monument Vandalized

Re: Ashurbanipal Monument Vandalized
Posted by pancho (Moderator) - Friday, July 10 2009, 21:03:55 (CEST)
from *** - *** Non-Profit Organizations - Windows XP - Mozilla
Website:
Website title:

...he said it was an insult to the great assyrian people....because it wasn't really Ashurbanipal but Gilgamesh. I heard this from many people. We're so damn literal. First of all there isn't any word or script or evidence whatsoever that the statue known as Gilgamesh is really OF Gilgamesh. Plus which there is another very similar statue and both are called "lion Tamer Heroes" in a French book by a well known archaeologist...neither of them is called Gilgamesh. Once again, we get our "history" from Europeans who first named this statue Gilgamesh and who argue among themselves while we sit on our thumbs and twirl....onl;y in these last years have we produced ONE assyrian Assyriologist...

...my decision to incorporate elements of the so-called Gilgamesh statue had to do with trying to work an animal into the monument...so I borrowed the lion cub the statue holds in its arm...that was enough; this was now Gilgamesh and I had got it "wrong". See, we're very keen on proving each other wrong...it's more important than anything else in our world...that's because we are nothing more than religious factions and sects who've been arguing over "wrong" interpretations of the Bible and Jesus...we're raised to find fault, not to create, not to invent, not to imagine.

Anyway, this fellow said I was calling Gilgamesh "Ashurbanipal" and he wouldn't stand for such a thing....of course he never did blow anything up...but some such hero as himself finally got the guts to "attack" the enemies of assyria by prying off the bronze plaque which had on it an English translation of the cuneiform inscription on the clay tablet in the statue's hand.



---------------------


The full topic:



***



Powered by RedKernel V.S. Forum 1.2.b9