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This is a long shot, but Hindu Lakshmi is also associated with lions and owls. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lakshmi https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lakshmi
by doubloon 2y ago
This is a long shot, but Hindu Lakshmi is also associated with lions and owls. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lakshmi https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lakshmi
- RcouF1uZ4gsC 2y agoThis was 250 - 400 years before the earliest Sanskrit inscription (found in Northern Syria linked to the Mittani). So this would predate that by quite a bit.
- jdougan 2y agoNit, it is spelled Mitanni when referring to the peoples. When spelled Mittani it refers to the former Eve Online space tyrant.
- aapoalas 2y agoOoh, Mittens!
- wl 2y agoThe inscriptions you refer to aren't Sanskrit, but Hurrian. The inscriptions in question contain Indo-European loan words and seemingly reference Vedic gods, but that does not make them Sanskrit inscriptions. If you're looking for the earliest Sanskrit inscriptions, you're looking to the first century BCE, over a millennium and a half later than this plaque. We have Sanskrit texts that are older than this, but the physical artifacts are newer copies of older copies that don't survive.
- sreeramvenkat 2y agoThe left hand seems to hold something like a noose which is an oft repeated item in Hindu iconography (pasha/pasa)
- card_zero 2y agoIt's in both hands (one fell off), and it's this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rod-and-ring_symbol https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rod-and-ring_symbol Gods hold it and offer it to kings, for whatever good that does them. It might be related to 𓍶, the Egyptian shen ring: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shen_ring https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shen_ring Here's the pasha. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pasha_(Hinduism) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pasha_(Hinduism)