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Why do you ask? How is this going to result in a fight, other than the fight between the two dogs?
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First let me tell you about a great tool called TinEye, a reverse image search that allows you to find where the image is located.Steve3007 wrote: ↑February 19th, 2018, 10:42 am It's a picture of two half-human-half-dogs fighting over a beetle with the sun above it and a hollow spherical device with holes punched in its bottom half, filled with water, below it. Possibly watering a garden. Or at least that's what it looks like to me.
Why do you ask? How is this going to result in a fight, other than the fight between the two dogs?
Ok.. so i think it's curious. The overall impression I get is two baboons squabbling (fighting or mixing it up) over something. But I guess what I was asking is what impression do other people get?
The relief is on display at the Met in the Ptolemies section and from around 400 BC so possibly pre-Alexander. It's a teaching of how things work and what things are Each hand of both baboons is touching a circle and between them is a beetle and two eyes. This may not make absolute sense to anyone not familiar with Egyptian art but I think it does give an idea.
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"The Met" = The Metropolitan Museum of Art in NYC, yes?
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Yes. I should have included a link but that skipped my mind. Another thing I forgot to mention and found interesting is your thought on the watering idea which I was seeing as light rays (bits) but either way seems to be the result.
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