Kudurru of Nebuchadnezzar I

(1125-1104 BCE)

n.b. astrological symbols

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Babylonian legal tablet, in clay envelope

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Babylonian king on kudurru

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Assurnasirpal II

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Cuneiform Tablets

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Assyrian relief: Assyrian troops round up rebel Chaldaeans in the marshes of

southern Mesopotamia

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Assyrian relief: Chaldaeans in camps, awaiting resettlement

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Assyrian relief: Chaldaeans hiding in reed marshes

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Bit-Yakin (main Chaldaean

tribe)

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Astrological kudurru

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Assyrian relief:

captured Chaldaeans

(Nineveh, Sennacherib’s

Palace)

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The Stele of Marduk-apal-

iddina(Merodach-

baladan)

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Babylon

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Reconstruction of the walls of Babylon

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BABYLON

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Reconstructed Model of the Ishtar Gate

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Glazed Lion Relief

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Head of a mushushshu

(dragon sacred to Marduk)

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Glazed Lion Relief

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Façade of the Throne Room

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Ruins of the Palace at Babylon

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Fanciful Reconstruction of the Hanging Gardens

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The Entemenanki

and the Esagila

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E-Mala Temple

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Courtyard of the

E-MalaTemple

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Aerial View of the Great

Ziggurat of Marduk

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Stele celebrating the moon god Sin

at Harran

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CENSORED

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Belshazzar(Rembrandt)

Scene from D.W. Griffith’s Intolerance

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Astronomical Text (Seleucid Period)

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Geometric Cuneiform Text

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