Series "The Myth of Adapa". Piece 7.

Alexey Beregovoy

oil on canvas, 70 cm x 130 cm.
2024

Adapa was a Mesopotamian mythical figure who unknowingly refused the gift of immortality. The story, commonly known as «Adapa and the South Wind», is known from fragmentary tablets from finds from the Library of Ashurbanipal, Assyria. The oldest tradition about him is from Me-Turan/Tell Haddad tablets (around 19th–16th century BC), which is written in Sumerian.
The painting was completed in the summer of 2024.

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