While trolling the net the other day I came across a very interesting site: www.artemission.com It is a site where one can purchase antiquities from a wide variety of ancient cultures.
What I wanted to know is: Is this a topic that needs its own forum, or would it fit within this one?? And more importantly, has anyone bought items to use / as aids to / or to decorate your altar area or to honor our Mesopotamian ancestors?? Have you found reputable sources for such items? What are the important things to know /to be wary of when looking to add such items to one's collection?
Unfortunately enough, I don't own any original mesopotamian antiquities myself, however I know that from time to time you can buy these at eBay! I only bought records and books via eBay so far, and it was always very reliable... just check out www.ebay.com (or your national eBay whatever - www.eBay.de in my case) and type "mesopotamia" or "mesopotamian"... and see what is in the actual offer...
Just try clicking here: search.ebay.com/search/se...tag1code=0
Re: Mesopotamian Antiquities
On shops:
1) the Museum Shop of the Metropolitan Museum of New York has several copies of Assyrian horses, the Assyrian Tree of Life pin, the Lamassu pins, Sumerian earrings, etc. There is not a wide choice but they are genuine copies Guess where I go to first thing when I am in New York? Second is Barnes and Noble, 5th Avenue, of course!
2) You can have the original pictures scanned from books and ... then choose the size you want them to be and have the images framed later!!! Great stuff to do. which is not that expensive either... Hint: there are pictures in Gateways you can save unto your disc and go to your Kinko´s or cyberoffice and have them printed the size you want...
3) Now, I collect Inanna´s pictures and everything Mesopotamian I can lay my eyes upon. I must have about 4 framed pictures of Inanna, five with the special engraving done up especially for me for my hierophancy. Thus, I do both. I collect images from the past and whenever I find modern pictures of Inanna, try to get hold of them. Chesca Potter, the illustrator of Caitlín and John Matthews´ books did also a FlowerLady for me and I got a real Asherath (antique) from Rick, Priest of Pan in the FOI and... my FX expert for the Mesopotamian playlets I did. He is an antiques dealer and She is exquisite. Frank also gave me a brilliant Inanna-like Goddess for Yule. She sits in front of my Assyrian horse from the Met...
My special Inanna stands sided by two lapis lazuli pillars, so Inanna is the Living Middle Pillar. My Asherath stands on a stand of red crystal... and She chose it!
In other words, enjoy the process of going Sumerian in the 21st Century!!! Your inner attunement will tell you what to do...
Daryl, our Golden-Dawn and Chef Extraordinary, has the four Elementals drawn by himself in Mesopotamian esplendor... and I have just seen... POST AN IMAGE, the link in the board... yeeeeppppeeeee!
So great thread, Soul Sister, and I hope we all start to exchange pictures and stuff real soon!
Note: There is something magickal about the pictures that cover the walls of my small but very trendy magickal flat. Most of them "came" to me when I was doing the retellings. So my bedroom is decorated with 8 gods/goddesses pictures, plus my special engraving, which is above my bed within a little painted shrine. I just realized they were the pictures of the myths I had written about when I started arranging the pics on the walls...
The special Inanna is a wood engraving which was carved for me for my Hierophancy. It was the present of a priestess of Sekhmet and my friend "got" the imprint of the Inanna of my meditations. I never told my friend how I saw my "Inanna". But somehow she and the engraver got my Inanna right...
From the Depths and To the Heights to share in all spheres
Guess where I go to first thing when I am in New York? 
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