Sumerians

Here are a few photos of some Cutting Edge Miniatures Sumerians I painted earlier in the year. A  new but brilliant range of Biblical figures sculpted by Ebob. They are quite slight figures but incredibly detailed and mix really well with the Foundry biblical ranges. Cutting Edge are bringing out a complete biblical range and at the moment are doing Hittites with Egyptians to follow, see Cutting Edge Miniatures.

This unit are the Royal Guard of the Sumerian city of Lagash. Eannatum, was the king of Lagash and the victory stele, the Stele of Vultures c.2500-2400 B.C. now in the Louvre, depicts his conquests and is the oldest known historical document. I'm painting two Sumerian armies one is the army of  Lagash and the other is the army of Ur. The famous Standard of Ur now in the British museum, has a war panel which shows the appearance and equipment of the soldiers of Ur. A great yarn and interesting background material on this early period of Sumerian history can be found in the Epic of Gilgamesh.

I'm going to start adding posts with photos of interesting historical sites we visited in Italy, Greece and Egypt (like the one on Mycenae) as I think people may find this interesting, especially if they haven't had the chance to visit these places themselves...