Rule of Mesopotamia

For the love of Mesopotamia.

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Siduri taking care of Tine, Tine, who has a special place in the heart of Gilgamesh and Enkidu, made her way into Siduri's gentle heart too! :)

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Gilgamesh's Girls

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SEMIRAMIS // QUEEN OF ASSYRIA

“She was the legendary Lydian-Babylonian wife of Onnes and of Ninus, who succeeded the latter on the throne of Assyria, according to Movses Khorenatsi. She was based on the life of Shammuramat, who was the Assyrian wife of Shamshi-Adad V (ruled 824 BC–811 BC). She ruled the Neo-Assyrian Empire as its regent for five years, before her son Adad-nirari III came of age and took the reins of power. She ruled at a time of political uncertainty, which may partly explain why Assyrians may have accepted the rule of a woman when it was not allowed by their cultural tradition. She conquered much of the Middle East and the Levant and stabilized and strengthened the empire after a destructive civil war. It has been speculated that being a woman who ruled successfully may have made the Assyrians regard her with particular reverence and that her achievements may have been retold over the generations until she was gradually turned into a legendary figure.”

(portrait is of ‘Semiramis heading of the insurrection at Babylon’ by Giovanni Francesco Barbieri)

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Gold bracelet with Agathodaimon, Isis-Tyche, Aphrodite, and Terenouthis

Egyptian, Roman Period, 1st century B.C. to A.D. 1st century

Metropolitan Museum of Art

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Queen Semiramis of Assyria

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The Ancient Roman House of the Birds, named for its mosaic with 33 different bird species.

Italica, Spain

Dec. 2019

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Torso of the goddess Venus Anadiomene

Graeco-Roman Period, ca. 30 BC - 300 AD. Medium: Egyptian faience. Now in the Calouste Gulbenkian Museum, Lisbon. Inv. 163

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~ Man and woman in loving embrace.

Place of origin: Iraq, Nippur

Period: Achaemenid Period

Date: 450 B.C.

Culture: Near Eastern

Medium: Terracotta

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Tablet of Shamash, Sippar, Babylonia, Mesopotamia, 888 - 855 B.C.

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Gold and lapis fish with cat’s head, from Ur, 25th century BC

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An Assyrian Elegy for a Woman (K 890)

This Assyrian elegy for a woman dead in childbirth was found in the Library of Ashurbanipal in a beautiful copy.  The author is unknown.

Why?  Like a boat midstream, abandoned —        your cross-bars broken, your mooring-ropes severed — your face veiled, you float across the City’s river.        "Akê!  Wasn’t I abandoned, my mooring-ropes severed?

“Once, I bore fruit — how happy was I!        Happy was I; happy was my husband. Once, my birth-pains clouded my face.        Once, my labor extinguished my eyes.

“I spread my fists to the lady goddess.  I prayed.        'You are mother of birth-givers; save my life.’ When the lady goddess heard, she veiled her face.        ’[Who are] you?  Why do you keep praying to me?’

["My husband, who l]oved me, gave a shout.        [‘Who has robbed] me of my wife, my bliss?’ […] for endless years,        […for]ever the land of decay.”

[…] the City, she cried a lament:        ”[…] those days, I with my husband. I dwelt with him; I was my beloved’s.        Death slipped silently into our chamber.

“From my house, he cast me out alone.        From my husband’s smile, he cut me off alone. He placed my footfall in the land of no return.”

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Inanna and her maidservant Ninshubur, who performed the mourning rituals over her after she descended to the underworld, fulfilling all the rites Inanna’s husband should have done in her devotion.

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The ceremonial dagger is Sumerian and from the Early Dynastic III period, BC, from Ur - Iraq Museum [736x552]

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A 5200-year-old pottery bowl from Shahr-e Sukhteh bearing what could possibly be the world's oldest example of animation. It shows 5 images of a wild goat leaping, and if you put them in a sequence (like a flip book), the wild goat leaps to nip leaves off a tree. Museum of Ancient Iran

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A sikkatu (cone/peg) inscribed in the Sumerian and Akkadian languages from the reign of Samsu-iluna (1750 – 1742 BC).

“…from the time when the brickwork of the temple Ebabbar was [first] constructed, [since] among the earlier kings, the sun god Shamash favoured none of them [and consequently] no-one built the wall of Sippar for him.

“I, Samsu-iluna, beloved of the gods Shamash and Aya, mighty king, king of Babylon,…by the levy of the army of my land, in the course of that [same] year formed its bricks [and] raised high the wall of Sippar there like a great mountain.

“I renovated the temple Ebabbar, raised high as heaven the top of the ziggurat, their lofty gigunnu temple, [and] brought the gods Shamash, Adad [Hadad] and Aya into their shining dwelling amidst joy and rejoicing.”

Under the reign of Hammurabi, nearly all of Mesopotamia was brought under Babylonian rule, but this was not without resistance. Samsu-iluna succeeded his father, and during his reign there were violent uprising in areas that had been previously conquered.  This forced Samsu-iluna to abandon several important cities, mostly in Sumer.  The last king of the Sumerian Dynasty of Larsa, Rim-Sin II, was killed in 1738 BC in revolt against Babylon.