EditorialModeration overcomes Gluttony Seven virtues and seven vices (series title), At a well, the personification of Moderation (Sobietas) fills a bowl with water and looks down at the personification of Gluttony at her feet ( Laemargiam) who is vomiting on t...
EditorialOmasus and gula, Parallel Title: Fat intestine and Speisz tube, Signed: M. Tyroff sculps, copperplate, plate CCXXXIII (Vol. 2), F?ssli, Johann Melchior; Tyroff, Martin (sculps.), 1731, Johann Jakob Scheuchzer: Kupfer-Bibel (...). Augspurg und Ulm: gedr...
EditorialTopers Drinking brothers, emblematic of the gluttony (Gula), Sculpture group of terracotta, in two separately modeled and baked parts. To the left and right of a table made of a stump, two crooked types were seated, each with a beer mug. The men seem t...
EditorialHolding the hand of a cloud out of balance, God holds the balance, in the right shell the ratio, in the left bowl phantasia, sensus, voluptas, gula, venus, etc., p. 186, 1586, Konrad Gessner, Caspar Wolf: Conradi Gesneri Tigurini philosophi et medici c...
EditorialGoddess Gula with her dog. Kudurru of Nazimarutash. Above her the crescent of the moon god, the star of Ishtar, the solar disk of Shamash and the scorpion of the underworld. War booty brought to Susa, 12th BCE Black limestone, Kassite period, 55 x 22 c...
EditorialTerracotta figure of a dog, Neo-Babylonian dynasty, Mesopotamia, 700-500 BCE. The sitting dog occurs as a divine symbol from the Old Babylonian period and continues through to the Neo-Babylonian. Inscriptions identify it as the symbol of Gula, goddess ...
EditorialNUMISMATICA.MEDALLA IMPERIO ROMANO. MEDALLON DE PLATA, DE CALIGULA.REVERSO.AGRIPINA-DRUSILLA-IULIA. LAS TRES HERMANAS DE CAL?GULA DE PIE DE FRENTE, PERSONIFICADAS COMO LA SECURITAS, LA CONCORDIA Y LA FORTUNA. CADA UNA LLEVA CORNUCOPIA. 37-41 D.C (DEPOS...
EditorialMesopotamian Art. Kassite Dynasty. The Eanna-shum-iddina kudurru (1125-1100 B.C.). It describes the land grant made by Governor Eanna-shum-iddina to Gula-Eresh witnessed by his surveyor Amurru-Bel-Zeri. The bottom is inscribed in cuneiform script and ...
EditorialKudurru with Gula, goddess of medicine. Kassite period, 1595-1200 BCE Brought as booty from Babylon to Susa in the 12th BCE. Limestone, H: 36 cm Sb 27.
EditorialGoddess Gula with her dog. Kudurru of Nazimarutash. Above her the crescent of the moon god, the star of Ishtar, the solar disk of Shamash and the scorpion of the underworld. War booty brought to Susa, 12th BCE Black limestone, Kassite period, 55 x 22 c...
EditorialTerracotta figure of a dog, Neo-Babylonian dynasty, Mesopotamia, 700-500 BCE. The sitting dog occurs as a divine symbol from the Old Babylonian period and continues through to the Neo-Babylonian. Inscriptions identify it as the symbol of Gula, goddess ...