Mesopotamian Hematite Duck Weight, Babylon, ca 2100 - 1800 BC
A measuring weight carved from hematite in the shape of a stylized duck, its long neck turned across its back, the head resting flat in...
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Ryan Moorhen
Feb 2, 201833 min read
Enuma Elish - The Babylonian Epic of Creation # Kingdoms of Sumeria
The Enuma Elish (also known as The Seven Tablets of Creation) is the Mesopotamian creation myth whose title is derived from the opening...
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Ryan Moorhen
Feb 2, 20181 min read
Eclipse Tablet Inscribed in Babylonian # Kingdoms of Sumeria
Tablet Inscribed in Babylonian with a Ritual for the Observances of Eclipses Mesopotamia, seleucid period(ca. third-first century...
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Ryan Moorhen
Feb 2, 20181 min read
Eye Stone Amulet # Kingdoms of Sumeria
Eye Stone Amulet with a Dedication Inscription of King Nebuchadnezzar II in Akkadian Inscribed: To Marduk, his lord, Nebuchadnezzar, king...
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Ryan Moorhen
Feb 2, 20181 min read
Hero Grasping Two Struggling Birds # Kingdoms of Sumeria
Hero Grasping Two Struggling Birds and Stepping on a Third Bird Cylinder seal and impression Mesopotamia, Neo-Babylonian...
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Ryan Moorhen
Feb 2, 20181 min read
Hero Grasping Two Male Sphinxes # Kingdoms of Sumeria
Hero Grasping Two Male Sphinxes Cylinder seal and impression Mesopotamia, Neo-Babylonian period(ca.1000–539 B.C.)Siliceous stone33 x 16...
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Ryan Moorhen
Feb 2, 20181 min read
Centaur with a Bow and Arrow Attacking Winged Lion # Kingdoms of Sumeria
Centaur with a Bow and Arrow Attacking Winged Lion Cylinder seal and impression Mesopotamia, Neo-Babylonian period(ca.1000–539...
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Ryan Moorhen
Feb 2, 20181 min read
Attendant Waving Palm Whisk over Table # Kingdoms of Sumeria
Attendant Waving Palm Whisk over Table Before Seated King Raising Cup, Attendant with Fan and Towel Behind King Cylinder seal and...
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Ryan Moorhen
Feb 1, 20187 min read
The Cyrus Cylinder # Kingdoms of Sumeria
The Cyrus Cylinder is a document issued by Cyrus the Great, consisting of a cylinder of clay inscribed in Akkadian cuneiform script. The...
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Ryan Moorhen
Feb 1, 20181 min read
Armed Hero Grasping Kicking Ostrich # Kingdoms of Sumeria
Armed Hero Grasping Kicking Ostrich; Worshiper Behind Two Fish Men with Pollen Baskets Flanking Sacred Tree; God in Winged Sun Disk Above...
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Ryan Moorhen
Feb 1, 20188 min read
Herodotus on Babylonians # Kingdoms of Sumeria
I:192. As to the resources of the Babylonians how great they are, I shall show by many other proofs and among them also by this: For the...
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Ryan Moorhen
Feb 1, 20181 min read
A Winged Hero Contesting with a Lion for a Bull
A Winged Hero Contesting with a Lion for a Bull Cylinder seal and impression Mesopotamia, Neo-Babylonian periodca.1000–539...
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Ryan Moorhen
Feb 1, 20182 min read
The Newly Discovered Tablet V of the Epic of Gilgamesh # Kingdoms of Sumeria
I was taking photos in the main hall of the Sulaymaniyah Museum and came across a display case containing a small clay tablet. The...
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Ryan Moorhen
Feb 1, 20189 min read
Ancient Mesopotamia: Inventing and Reinventing Our World # Kingdoms of Sumeria
Three successive civilizations — Sumerian, Babylonian, and Assyrian — flourished along the “Fertile Crescent” in ancient Mesopotamia for...
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Ryan Moorhen
Feb 1, 201813 min read
Mesopotamia # Kingdoms of Sumeria
Mesopotamia (from the Greek, meaning 'between two rivers’) was an ancient region in the eastern Mediterranean bounded in the northeast by...
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Ryan Moorhen
Feb 1, 20186 min read
Mesopotamian Religion
In ancient Mesopotamia, the meaning of life was for one to live in concert with the gods. Humans were created as co-laborers with their...
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Ryan Moorhen
Feb 1, 20189 min read
Nabu # Kingdoms of Sumeria
Nabu (sometimes known as Tutu) is the Babylonian god of wisdom, learning, prophecy, scribes, and writing and was also responsible for the...
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Ryan Moorhen
Feb 1, 20189 min read
Nergal # Kingdoms of Sumeria
Nergal (also known as Erra and Irra) is the Mesopotamian god of death, war, and destruction. He began as a regional, probably...
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Ryan Moorhen
Feb 1, 201810 min read
Ashurbanipal # Kingdoms of Sumeria
Ashurbanipal (668-627 BCE, also known as Assurbanipal) was the last of the great kings of Assyria. His name means "the god Ashur is...
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Ryan Moorhen
Feb 1, 20184 min read
Cuneiform Writing # Kingdoms of Sumeria
Script is any particular system of writing or the written means of human communication. In the West, writing begins in Sumeria over 4,000...
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