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Gargoyles And The Lamassu
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| Gargoyles and the Lamassu
Since the beginning of human imagination, we have fabricated the idea of power through imaginative creatures for protection. The origin of this idea dates back before the death of Christ with “bas” relief animals attached to gate walls. During the Assyrian Era, Lamassu’s guarded the gates of Sargon II, and were depicted as a winged human-headed bulls. The High relief creature were situated at adjacent sides of the gate at Khorsabad and served as a guardian to the King from all evil. Erected in 720 BC, it’s size is ten times as massive as humans giving it a sense of awe. Their size and high relief intrigued me to understand more about this grand humanized creature. After reviewing what the paper was about, the incorporation of Lamassues into a thesis sounded appealing. A few thousand years later, Gargoyles founded their birth in Europe. Gargoyles were more or less used as water drainage ornaments along the sides of cathedrals, but they were also prot... |
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