A ce jour, le plus vieil entrelacs que j’ai trouvé, et si fin! date de plus de 5000 ans d’âge.
Ces cylindres sceaux authentifiaient des actes commerciaux probablement.
Leather Worker(?) in Rooms Framed by Serpo-Felines, Mesopotamia, Late Uruk period, (ca. 3500–3100 B.C.), Serpentine
« The earliest period of urban civilization in southern Mesopotamia is named Uruk after the preeminent sanctuary town of the age. At Uruk, monumental architecture and sculpture were found in levels that also yielded cylinder seals and their impressions on clay lumps placed over cords around the necks of jars or on clay balls enclosing small counting devices. Somewhat later, cylinders were rolled onto tablets bearing the first signs of Sumerian writing. »
et beaucoup d’autres entrelacs en sceau ….
Male Figure Before a Goddess Drawing Aside Her Mantle, Syria (ca. 1720–1650 B.C.), Hematite,
Suppliant Goddess with Scorpions Before Winged Goddess with Weapons in Chamber Formed by Guilloches
Source :
The Morgan Library and Museum qui possède une belle collection exposée sur le Net avec beaucoup de clarté. Allez voir la collection, des pièces uniques par leur beauté et la précision du travail.
Plus on s’enfonce dans le temps, plus le serpent est présent.
