And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Wednesday, January 10, 2024
Gudea of Lagash, Mesopotamia (Iraq), city-state of Lagash Neo-Sumerian period, Lagash II dynasty 2150-2125 BC
It looks Chinese until I see the writing on the back. Mesopotamia 4,000 years ago...
ReplyDeleteWhat artist created such a thing!?
ReplyDeleteCan someone identify the rock?
I might be wrong, but it looks like paragonite...
DeleteI'm thinking nephrite. An amphibole of 6 on the Moh scale of hardness, i.e., relatively easy to carve. Found in Iraq.
DeleteOzymandias 2nd Cousin.
ReplyDeleteThe ancients had no idea which knick-knacks would still be kicking around 4000 years later.
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