Category:Clay panels from Inshushinak temple - Susa - middle XII BC - Louvre - Sb 2732 to 2735, 14390, 14391, 19575 to 19577

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English: Louvre museum elamite clay panel found at Susa (Sush) by french archeologist Roland de Mecquenem , during his excavations of the Apadana tell, below the achaemenian level. The Apadana (Darius the Great’s palace) was builded over the ancient elamite city. 3 courtyards and the surrounding parts of the palace could be excavated to study the older levels. These studies leaded to the unearthing of many elamite artifacts, from wich the remnants of a temple dedicated to the cult of Inshushinak, buided by elamite kings Kutir-Nahunte and Shilhak-Inshushinak, “kings of Susa and Anzan” (the capitals of the elamite kingdom). The clay panel shows bull-men and goddesses protecting palm-trees (symbols of fertility) and used to decorate a wall of the temple.
Français : Parement de mur en briques moulées , qui décorait un temple dédié à Inshushinak, construit d'abord par Kutir-Nahunte puis terminé oar son frère Shilhak-Inshushinak. Le panneau est composé de briques cuites moulées avec des hommes-taureaux protégeant un palmier et des déesses de l'intercession dénommées Lama. . Milieu du XIIe siècle av. J.-C. Trouvé à Suse, dans le tell de l'Apadana (salle d'audience) - Musée du Louvre - Sb 2732 à 2735, Sb 14390, Sb14391, Sb 19575 à 19577 - Certaines parties ont été restaurées.

Literature: Alexandra Keens. Panels of molded bricks. Susa; The Royal City of Susa: Ancient Near Eastern Treasures in the Louvre. Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1992. pp. 141-144.

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