[Ansteorra] need help in remember where I saw a lamp

[Mike C. Baker]

> Well today I found a clay terracotta plate with a small bowl 
> in the middle for a candle or oil with three figures of fish 
> around it. Somewhere I remember seeing  something like that 
> but with birds. I have looked through all my art books and 
> can not find the picture I am thinking of. 
> Do any of you remember such an artifact??
> willow

Your Grace, my brain is twigging to an image from a college-level art
appreciation textbook I used in the mid'1970s that had the birds you
describe.  This is a vague memory, but I *think* it was identified as
pre-Christian , Mesopotamian region?

Adieu, Amra / ttfn - Mike / Pax ... Kihe

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