Stripey Kingship on the Orontes
February 7, 2017
To the British Museum, to see the scanning of the statue of King Idrimi of Alalakh. The king, pictured above in his livery of scanning-stripes, is a splendidly pop-eyed chap with magnificent hat, who was exiled from Aleppo in the mid-second millennium BC and returned from exile to capture and rule for 30 years or … More Stripey Kingship on the Orontes