The importance of Lama on presentation scenes

Gonçalves, Vera; Rosa, Maria de Fátima; Gomes de Almeida, Isabel

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Gonçalves, Vera

Rosa, Maria de Fátima

Gomes de Almeida, Isabel

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For the past years we have been focusing our attention on the agency of Mesopotamian divine figures, considering their multiple roles, features, and importance as displayed in several material, iconographic and textual data. By intertwining the methodological and theoretical apparatus of Archaeology and History with the ones of Religious Studies, one of our goals is to contribute to the reconstruction of the Mesopotamian religious system, by examining the conceptualization of deities within the institutional and the personal/familiar spheres. With this paper we aim to present some of our preliminary results within this scope, namely concerning the divine figure of Lama. With that in mind, we will revisit her importance on two small, but rather thematically cohesive samples of cylinder seals unearthed in Tell Asmar and Tell Ishchali during the 1930’s archaeological campaigns led by the at the time designated Oriental Institute of Chicago, presently Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures of the University of Chicago.