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Inanna: Sumerian Goddess

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Watercolor. So it only took me several months to finish this.....mostly because I got so busy that I couldn't work on it. Soooo...I got this idea from looking at cuneiform on wikipedia and being kind of fascinated since I like languages, especially ones with a completely different system of writing. I decided I wanted to do a painting with cuneiform in the background. That was the easy part. Sadly, there are only bits and pieces of Sumerian artwork left so I didn't have too much to go on. I based her pose on a relief of the Sumerian goddess "Inanna"-- hence the name. The headdress is a variation (artistic license!) on a Sumerian priestess headdress still in existence. The clothes I just made up since most of the artwork depicted people naked. Anddd the pattern of brick between the columns of cuneiform in the background is from the Ishtar Gate!
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