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Saturday, 30 October 2021

How grain came to Sumer

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Sumerian cylinder seal, Uruk, c. 3500-3100BC , currently in Louvre   Description: cattle herd in a grain field...Now unless Sumerians grew g...
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Bulls and grain bowls

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Fragment of a vessel with wheat stalks and a procession of bulls in relief, Late Uruk–Jemdet Nasr, 3300–2900 BC, Southern Mesopotamia. Why b...

Sacred marriage on the threshing floor

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Vital to an agrarian community’s survival, threshing floors are agricultural spaces where crops are threshed and winnowed. "...But the ...

Lion killing bull under a date palm

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Here's an interesting cylinder seal impression, about which I only know that it is from the first half of the first millennium BC and th...
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Wednesday, 27 October 2021

Tuna coin from Akanthos

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Silver Tetradrachm minted in Akanthos, Macedonia c. 470-430 BC, featuring lion attacking bull (over fish) I just want to add few bits which ...
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