Religious-political banner "Hattian". Civilization... Lot 96

Religious-political banner "Hattian". Civilization of "Hatti" (pre-Hatite), center of the Anatolian peninsula, before 3000 B.C. Probably 3500 B.C. Copper. The piece retains the remains of two flanges on the back. It is preserved with its patina, with abundant inlays and some important folds are evident due to the fact that the plate has been bent. Provenance: important collection in New Jersey. Measurements: 27,5 x 16,5 cm. Important late Anatolian Chalcolithic copper standard made from drawn, hammered and fretworked native copper. It probably predates the banners found in the necropolis of "Alaca Hoyuk". Likewise, the work keeps many symbolic similarities with many of these banners of Royal category. The work, with a marked religious theme, could be divided into two sections despite the relationship between them. The lower part would represent a boat that on a pedestal transports the supreme star, the Sun, well defined by the detail that it has two great wings in the superior part (the only star represented exclusively with wings in the antiquity was the Sun), and that would enter in direct relation with the Great Goddess "ARINNA". In the upper part and also of marked religious component, we have a trinity of bird-idols of the "Kilia" type without the head (since initially these idols were represented, many times, without the head), of which one is missing. Related to this trinity, above, in the upper part, there is another trinity of stars, which probably represent the three sacred stars: SUN-Moon-Venus (in antiquity and especially in Mesopotamia, Venus had the same category as the Sun and the Moon).