Following is a Wiki explanation of the above picture. It's 'Gilgamesh' represented on a 4,000 year old huge bas relief panel (from Mesopotamia) at the Louvre. The connection between jewelry (at its best, not 'meatball' jewelry) and the arts is so strong that Kathy and I can't stay out of museums. They're both places of 'wonder' and inspirations. And one of the great things about the Louvre is that (as long as you use 'available light' no flash) it is openly picture friendly. If you go, take a reasonably good digital pocket camera with you. This picture was taken with a 'Sony' recommended by 'Consumers' Report'.
"The Epic of Gilgamesh, an epic poem from Mesopotamia, is amongst the earliest surviving works of literature. The literary history of Gilgamesh begins with five independent Sumerian poems about 'Bilgamesh' (Sumerian for Gilgamesh), king of Uruk. Four of these were used as source material for a combined epic in Akkadian. This first, "Old Babylonian" version of the epic dates to the 18th century BC and is titled Shūtur eli sharrī ("Surpassing All Other Kings"). Only a few fragments of it survived. The later, Standard Babylonian version dates from the 13th to the tenth centuries BC and bears the title Sha naqba īmuru ("He who Saw the Deep"). Fragments of approximately two thirds of this longer, twelve-tablet version have been recovered. Some of the best copies were discovered in thelibrary ruins of the 7th-century BC Assyrian king Ashurbanipal."
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