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lproven 28 minutes ago [-]
The ancient Sumerians invented cuneiform writing about 5000-5500Y ago.
This is as long before ancient Sumer as ancient Sumer is before us today.
Mind-boggling.
Nicholas_C 42 minutes ago [-]
The aesthetics of this sculpture look very similar to the Moai on Rapa Nui (Easter Island).
YeGoblynQueenne 55 minutes ago [-]
>> Less than 12 miles away from Karahan Tepe, a high relief of a man gripping his phallus flanked by two roaring/biting leopards carved into the stone is the earliest narrative scene ever discovered.
So, er, what is the um narrative conveyed by this scene?
indianwashlets 4 minutes ago [-]
No cougars were hurt during filming that scene.
samudrijan 27 minutes ago [-]
It’s a cautionary tale: man who jerks his meat in the woods risks getting eaten by leopards.
hluska 19 minutes ago [-]
There are pictures available.
I’m certainly not an expert but he’s holding his stomach in one hand, giving himself a good tug with the other and looks somewhere between scared and confused. The leopard on the left is all smiles.
There’s another dude standing a few figures away with his back turned to old tug-a-lug. He’s holding something and looks kind of ashamed though I could be reading that into the image since it’s not really well carved… Tug-a-lug is the best carved of all and must be the centrepiece of the story.
If this is another great flood narrative, I sure prefer the Hebrew great flood story.
bena 50 minutes ago [-]
Depends on the nature of the grip.
He could be trying to protect his junk from the leopards, or taunting the leopards by jerking at them. So many options. The past was just as juvenile and perverse as modernity.
anentropic 39 minutes ago [-]
Given that they went to considerable effort to carve it in stone as part of a temple complex, it was likely neither juvenile nor perverse
westmeal 21 minutes ago [-]
Some people like making others laugh, maybe they thought we'd appreciate it
dyauspitr 26 minutes ago [-]
The simple joys of being a man.
krapp 16 minutes ago [-]
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adriand 45 minutes ago [-]
> Since systematic excavations began in 2019, a number of anthropomorphic and zoomorphic figural sculptures have been found at Karahan Tepe, often in unusual combinations. Several examples of a human carrying a leopard on his back. The leopards in these sculptures are not slung on the man’s back as if he had killed them in the hunt or tamed them enough to carry them, but rather are depicted snarling, with teeth bared, very much alive and very much unfriendly.
Interesting that "you've got a monkey on your back" is a commonly-used expression in English. I could imagine these people saying the exact same thing, with "leopard" substituted in.
"Bro, I gotta get this leopard off my back..."
jollyllama 5 minutes ago [-]
No, you have it reversed, the leopards have the monkey on their back.
adityapatadia 33 minutes ago [-]
What a downgrade. We were riding leopards back then!
This is as long before ancient Sumer as ancient Sumer is before us today.
Mind-boggling.
So, er, what is the um narrative conveyed by this scene?
I’m certainly not an expert but he’s holding his stomach in one hand, giving himself a good tug with the other and looks somewhere between scared and confused. The leopard on the left is all smiles.
There’s another dude standing a few figures away with his back turned to old tug-a-lug. He’s holding something and looks kind of ashamed though I could be reading that into the image since it’s not really well carved… Tug-a-lug is the best carved of all and must be the centrepiece of the story.
If this is another great flood narrative, I sure prefer the Hebrew great flood story.
He could be trying to protect his junk from the leopards, or taunting the leopards by jerking at them. So many options. The past was just as juvenile and perverse as modernity.
Interesting that "you've got a monkey on your back" is a commonly-used expression in English. I could imagine these people saying the exact same thing, with "leopard" substituted in.
"Bro, I gotta get this leopard off my back..."