PAINTING A BRONZE AGE COVER FOR WS&S THE VULTURE STELE

I often think back to when I was a child, and I would wake up earlier than I was supposed to on Saturday, pick up an old book about the ‘Dawn of Civilization', go back to bed, and look at the book. I was impressed by some of the stories there and the photographs of enigmatic archaeological items. Some of these were the Vultures Stele and the Standard of Ur.

By Andrés Amián

The Stele depicts chariots and infantry formations carrying big rectangular shields and spears. Years later, when I started to paint miniatures, I found some 15 mm Sumerian figures in a shop in my home city; again those same chariots and spearmen that had stuck in my mind so many years ago. Since then, I have painted Early Bronze Age figures in different scales and by companies, and played with them using several different rulesets. When Guy approached me and asked if I would create the diorama for this issue's cover, once he told me there would need to be a Bronze Age scene, I knew it had to be Sumerians. The Stele of the Vultures (see page 36) is a limestone carving dating from circa 2600 BC. It depicts the victory…

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