The two adorants offering water ablutions in front of the ziggurat (which is a temple) are seated in the same prayer posture as depicted on Indus Scrpt Corpora.

See:

1. Sit Shamshi bronze and Susa table with overflowing pots signify Indus Script hypertexts veneration of sun, ancestors, metalwork wealth creation https://tinyurl.com/yam8ccv8

2. Sit Shamshi bronze, morning libations to Sun divinity, as Meluhha metalwork with Indus writing hieroglyphs transmitted along the Tin Road of Antiquityhttp://bharatkalyan97.blogspot.com/2015/01/sit-shamshi-bronze-morning-libations-to.html

3. Susa Sit Shamshi 'sunrise' is Vedic काण्डर्षि.tarpaṇam, purification by water & the Sun, veneration of ancestors http://tinyurl.com/qdny4v7

The Elamite/Akkadian word ‘shamshi’ which signifies ‘sunrise’ is cognate with अशीतिःN. of the four passages of the sun from one zodiacal sign to the other. शोषयित्नुः [शुष्-इत्नुच् Uṇ.3.29] The sun.शोषिणी Ether. Fire; the semantics are traceable to R̥gveda: शोषयितृ m. one who dries up or parches (सायण) शुष् drying up , parching (» पर्न-शुष्).शोषिणी f. ether (one of the five धारणाs) (धातुपाठ XXVI.74) शोशुचत् mfn. (fr. Intens. of √ शुच्) shining very brightly , very splendid RV. (Monier-Williams).

षष् num. a. (used in pl., nom.षट्; gen. षण्णाम्) Six; तेषांत्ववयवान्सूक्ष्मान्षण्णामप्यमितौजसाम् Ms.1.16;8.43. अशीतिः f. (-ष़डशीतिः) 1 eighty-six. -2 N. of the four passages of the sun from one zodiacal sign to the other. शोषयित्नुः [शुष्-इत्नुच् Uṇ.3.29] The sun.शोषिणी Ether. Fire; शुचि a. [शुच्-कि] 1 Clean, pure, clear; the sun शुचीनांहृदयंशुचिः Mb.12.193.18. शाश्वत a. (-ती f.) 1 [शश्वद्भवःअण्] 1 Eternal, per- petual, everlasting; शाश्वतीःसमाः Rām.1.2.15 (= U.2. 5) 'for eternal years', 'ever more', 'for all time to come'; श्रेयसेशाश्वतोदेवोवराहःपरिकल्पताम् U.5.27 (v. l.); R.14.14. -2 All. -तः 1 N. of Śiva. -2 Of Vyāsa. -3 The sun. 

 

Sit Shamshi discovered in the area of the Ninhursag temple, Susa(After Plate 7.21 DT Potts, 2015, Archaeology of Elam, Cambridge University Press) Photo: Dr. JavierAlvarez-Mon).

 

 https://www.louvre.fr/en/oeuvre-notices/sit-shamshi

Model of a temple, called the Sit-shamshi, made for the ceremony of the rising sun

12th century BC

Tell of the Acropolis, Susa

·         Bronze

·         J. de Morgan excavations, 1904-05

Sb 2743

·         Louvre Museum's description of the narrative:

·         This large piece of bronze shows a religious ceremony. In the center are two men in ritual nudity surrounded by religious furnishings - vases for libations, perhaps bread for offerings, steles - in a stylized urban landscape: a multi-tiered tower, a temple on a terrace, a sacred wood. In the Middle-Elamite period (15th-12th century BC), Elamite craftsmen acquired new metallurgical techniques for the execution of large monuments, statues and reliefs.

A ceremony

·         Two nude figures squat on the bronze slab, one knee bent to the ground. One of the figures holds out open hands to his companion who prepares to pour the contents of a lipped vase onto them. The scene takes place in a stylized urban landscape, with reduced-scale architectural features: a tiered tower or ziggurat flanked with pillars, a temple on a high terrace. There is also a large jar resembling the ceramic pithoi decorated with rope motifs that were used to store water and liquid foodstuffs. An arched stele stands by some rectangular basins. Rows of dots in relief may represent solid foodstuffs on altars, and jagged sticks represent trees. The men's bodies are delicately modeled, their faces clean-shaven, and their shaved heads speckled with the shadow of the hair. Their facial expression is serene, their eyes open, the hint of a smile on their lips. An inscription tells us the name of the piece's royal dedicator and its meaning in part: "I Shilhak-Inshushinak, son of Shutruk-Nahhunte, beloved servant of Inshushinak, king of Anshan and Susa [...], I made a bronze sunrise."