A short thread.
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Photo by @Mehiyar
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Photo by @Mehiyar
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Either way, it is an incredibly early depiction of a human face from the late 4th millennium BCE. Photo by @Mehiyar
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They often featured mythological figures and iconography, like the crescent of the moon god Sîn (top left) and a lightning fork (bottom left). Photo by @Mehiyar
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