Sargon of Akkad Restored
by Weston Westmoreland
Title
Sargon of Akkad Restored
Artist
Weston Westmoreland
Medium
Digital Art - Digital Oil Painting
Description
The Mask of Sargon of Akkad, restored. Digital oil painting.
The life-size bronce bust known as the mask of Sargon was found in 1931 in the temple of Ishtar, in the ancient city of Nineveh, in 1931, and was somewhat restored in 1936. The damage it presented was probably caused during the destruction of Nineveh by Medes and Babylonians in 612 BC. The bust had been intentionally damaged, separated from the body, which was never recovered, the beard broken one eye gouged, the other damaged, the nose flattened and the ears torn. This painted restoration shows how it probably looked like before the attack.
The Mask of Sargon was exhibited in the National Museum of Iraq in Baghdad until in 2003 it was looted along with hundreds of pieces of Mesopotamian art, during the Second Gulf War. Its fate has since remained unknown.
Sargon of Akkad, also known as Sargon the Great, was the first ruler of the Akkadian Empire, known for his conquests of the Sumerian city-states between 2334–2284 BC. He is considered the first person in recorded history to rule over an empire, the first emperor. Ruling from his capital, Akkad, his empire is thought to have included most of Mesopotamia and parts of the Levant, reaching from the Mediterranean and Lebanon to the Persian Gulf. His dynasty ruled for 140 years. He is not to be confused with Sargon I, a later Assyrian king.
Sargon appears as a legendary figure in Neo-Assyrian literature of the 8th to 7th centuries BC. Tablets with fragments of a Sargon Birth Legend were found in the Library of Ashurbanipal.
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May 14th, 2021
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