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Showing posts with label Assyrian mythology. Show all posts
Sunday, 3 August 2025

Scorpion under the bed

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A drawing of an archaic seal impression from Ur depicting a copulating couple and a scorpion, from " Ur Excavations (Volume 3) Archaic ...
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Monday, 5 February 2024

Care of the dead

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Two Assyrian soldiers forcing Elamite captive to grind bones of his family, 7th - 6th c. BC. This wasn't like most people think an act o...
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Sunday, 30 October 2022

Black basalt stone of Esarhaddon

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This rectangular-sided monument made of black basalt in 670 BC, records Assyrian King Esarhaddon's restoration of Babylon, after it was ...
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Sunday, 18 September 2022

The great imposter

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A Kassite seal, dated to ca. 1350 BC, currently in the Archaeological Museum in Thebes, Greece. One of several Kassite seals listed in ...
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Tuesday, 8 March 2022

Relief from Dur Sharrukin

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The hand...Relief from Dur Sharrukin (the Assyrian capital in the time of Sargon II of Assyria), "detail of a throne???", ca 721 ...
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