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yo bear with me while I redo this k Everything's still under construction and I'm changing my url every 5 seconds so please excuse the perpetually broken links ♕ inim-dirig ♕ Astaroth - Prince of Vanity Indie OC RP blog, extremely loosely based on early Supernatural. Please read the about and guidelines pages before interacting, he can be kind of a dick.

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Elie Saab S/S 2014

Bold what bad habits apply to your muse

nirdili

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#astacanon #does skipping breakfast count as a bad habit when you don't eat #basically he belongs in the cast of housewives of Beverley hills

Sumerian Copper Bowl, Late Uruk-Jemdet Nasr Period, C. 3300-2900 BC

Decorated with leopards, ibexes, lions and bulls

#more acceptable grave goods

richard-miles-archaeologist-dea

Ancient Worlds - BBC Two

Episode 1 “Come Together”

Uruk was one of the most important cities (at one time the mot important city) in ancient Mesopotamia.

Uruk is considered the first true city in the world, the origin of writing, the first example of architectural work in stone and the building of great stone structures, the origin of the ziggurat, and the first city to develop the cylinder seal which the ancient Mesopotamians used to designate personal property or as a signature on documents. Considering the importance the cylinder seal had for the people of the time, and that it stood for one’s personal identity and reputation, Uruk could also be credited as the city which first recognized the importance of the individual in the collective community.

Starting just under 6.000 years ago, the archaeological record of Uruk reveals a period of intensive building and rebuilding, which went on for four or five centuries. In that period, a dozen or more large public buildings were built; temples, palaces, assembly halls. They used novel building techniques, like -colored stone- cone mosaics (pictures 3-4-5).

PART II

Uruk, Iraq

#There really isn't that much left #is there?

archaicwonder

Mesopotamian Bovine Statuette, Early Dynastic I , C. 2800-2700 BC

Made of black steatite with calcite inlays.

This type of figurine was probably left at a temple as an offering to the goddess Inanna (Inana), the most important female deity of ancient Mesopotamia. She was the goddess of sexual love, fertility, and warfare, and goddess of the E-ana temple at the city of Uruk, her main center. There were many other temples dedicated to her along the Tigris and Euphrates rivers. In later times Inanna was syncretized with the East Semitic Akkadian, Assyrian and Babylonian goddess Ishtar and the Northwest Semitic Aramean goddess Astarte.

#This is far more acceptable