Wall paintings Arslantepe

Seals and wall paintings from Arslantepe VIA (a) from corridor in front of Temple B, reproduced with the kind permission of the School of American Research and Marcella Frangipane (b) seals redrawn from Pittman 2007 (c) painting from storeroom A364 (south of Temple B), illustration courtesy of Marcella Frangipane. 

On the one hand, the tradition of wall painting is already established at Arslantepe in the previous level, and its use here would seem to imply continuity within a local population. Colors and geometric motifs are the same in levels VII and VIA (Baltali 2007). However, the iconographic elements are obviously different from one level to the next, whether or not one invokes the threshing scene, and the prominence of human-animal interaction in level VIA is itself quite new. It cannot be presumed that wall painting is a northern attribute only. 

Two wall paintings from Arslantepe with comparable sealings... 

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