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Opera Laboratori Fiorentini

The Investiture of Zimri-Lim (1778-1758 B.C.), placed on the northern side of the Palm Court at Mari, in the Syrian Middle Euphrates valley, is part of a pictorial complex whose original is now in Paris, at the Louvre.
At the top, the sovereign is portrayed while receiving from the goddess Ishtar a rod and a rope, symbols of command. At the bottom, two divinities are holding a vase from which gushes water. In the central panel, Ishtar is offering the sovereign the symbols of power, flanked by two divinities who are watching the scene in the presence of a personage wearing a regal mantle and a horned tiara, perhaps a deified royal ancestor.