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The king is shown approaching Ishtar granting his right arm showing respect. In another piece of artwork Hammurabi also raises his right arm to the sun god Shamash. Shamash is shown with flames coming out of his shoulders. In both these pieces of artwork the basic point is to show the gods granting royal authorities to the kings showing their power...
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I think these pieces of artwork are done to show the power of the deities to be greater then that of the kings. The Egyptian worldview was a lot different from that of any other period. Egyptians believed in many deities and depicted them in their artwork as animals or having the head of an animal Horus who was an Egyptian god, son of Osiris is represented as a falcon or a falcon- headed man because a falcon is the noblest bird in the sky...
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