Archaeologist Paolo Matthiae and his person concerned besides found two porcelain "that buoy up textual suggestion for a splendid cult of the dead fixed on the city's queens." Roughly speaking the two porcelain, the keep a record says:
Each one porcelain are testing representations of women, which are atypical in Lock Eastern Bust Age art. One, completed of steatite and coppice, is depicted with her arms eager in a sign mobile prayer. The sec carving holds a beaker and wears an elaborate gold dress. Each one emerge to back been cast-off in a ritual mentioned in a with the exception of from Ebla that describes how the city's dead queens became female deities who were subsequently worshiped in secret by their successors. Matthiae suspects the steatite devise depicts a living queen who would back prayed to the gold-covered carving, itself a embodiment of a dead queen who had become a goddess.
The discovered of the city of Ebla thirty soul ago caused a lot of heat up in the archaeological world. That heat up cool continues today with these new product.
Read the keep a record in Archaeology by clicking present-day. See an puffy picture of the porcelain by clicking present-day.
HT: Duane Smith
Claude Mariottini
Professor of Old Testimonial
Northern Baptist Seminary
