[doubloon]

This is a long shot, but Hindu Lakshmi is also associated with lions and owls. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lakshmi

[RcouF1uZ4gsC]

This was 250 - 400 years before the earliest Sanskrit inscription (found in Northern Syria linked to the Mittani).

So this would predate that by quite a bit.

[jdougan]

Nit, it is spelled Mitanni when referring to the peoples. When spelled Mittani it refers to the former Eve Online space tyrant.

[aapoalas]

Ooh, Mittens!

[wl]

The inscriptions you refer to aren't Sanskrit, but Hurrian. The inscriptions in question contain Indo-European loan words and seemingly reference Vedic gods, but that does not make them Sanskrit inscriptions. If you're looking for the earliest Sanskrit inscriptions, you're looking to the first century BCE, over a millennium and a half later than this plaque. We have Sanskrit texts that are older than this, but the physical artifacts are newer copies of older copies that don't survive.

[sreeramvenkat]

The left hand seems to hold something like a noose which is an oft repeated item in Hindu iconography (pasha/pasa)

[card_zero]

It's in both hands (one fell off), and it's this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rod-and-ring_symbol

Gods hold it and offer it to kings, for whatever good that does them.

It might be related to 𓍶, the Egyptian shen ring:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shen_ring

Here's the pasha.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pasha_(Hinduism)