Inaugurating #SensesSunday with this beautiful orthostat relief showing a seated figure holding a lotus flower to his nose 🪷 👃. Before him stand two bullmen supporting a winged sun disk.
Tell Halaf (ancient Guzana), Syria, Neo-Hittite (10th–9th century BCE). MMA 43.135.1. Rogers Funds, 1943.

#SensesSunday a midkhan (incense burner) used to burn oud to scent the guest area, or majlis, where it was passed around to guests as a sign of hospitality, today on display in the National Museum of Qatar, Doha #incense #incenseburner #qatar

#SensesSunday Short circular ceramic incense burner from the Assyrian capital Dur-Šarrukin, Iraq, excavated by ISAC’s Khorsabad Expedition & recorded on this Catalog Card, in the ISAC Museum Archives 💨 🔥 #Assyria #Incense #Archives
On types & use of Assyrian censers www.academia.edu/111948197/_I...