(Please read from the start)
The whole scene is oriented towards your right hand if you are looking at the screen; this including the fish. I don’t know about you, but the orientation is giving me the impression that the boat is flowing downwards = going downstream; which in turn consolidates my interpretation this is a Kuphar and we are flowing down from Armenia on the Euphrates River in this scene.
The second register, the one just above, is narrower than the previous one. The scene flow is also oriented toward your right hand. And this is where I’m going to start:
The first person we see in this register is a bearded man, wearing traditional Assyrian tunic and cap. He’s got his left arm lowered while his right arm is held up high. His hands are positioned in the same way as Pazuzu is.
The second person in this register forms a duet with the third person. Both are facing one another, which makes the second person having turned his back to the first person whom is right in front of him. Both are wearing traditional Assyrian tunics and both have their right arm lifted upwards which is again the same pose as Pazuzu does. Both have the body of a human but their heads is that of a feline. Anons guessed it right if they think these are warriors wearing a feline armor.
Right behind this feline duo, we have a strange scene. Two men wearing fish = aquatic armor are standing on each side of a sick person’s bed, with their right hands raised in a blessing gesture. Between them, it seems there is a bed with a mattress on it. This bed looks incredibly close to the one we have in dynastic Ancient Egypt – as seen in picture attached to this page. A person is lying on the bed with his/her arms extended upwards. This person is not dead YET, but probably sick and at risk of dying.
What is puzzling about this person what she/he is wearing. It’s like some type of long tunic or robe with a hood to cover the head. So I’m wondering if this is not a “hospital gown” type of clothing we have here. What do you think anons: is this bed a “healing” bed like the ones we’ve mentioned before in this thread (page 207 – 10th point)? Is the second register representing a fight between warriors and someone got wounded and is being treated? It’s a possibility.
This register ends on your far left hand with what looks like a high stool where an object is placed. Looking at the height of the stool, this is an oil lamp put on the high stool to get the room brighter. Placing light on a high surface illuminates and brightens the room much more than placing the light on the floor or near the floor. A simple trick, but an effective one. Check the picture and compare.
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