#eshnunna

[thatshowthingstarted]

Terracotta figurine of a woman with a bird’s beak face,

2nd millennium B.C. From Eshnunna, Tell Asmar, Iraq.

H : 13,5 cm ; L: 4,6 cm ; T : 2,7 cm

Courtesy: The Louvre

[bagdemagus]

Figurine depicting a standing woman Terracotta Excavated at Tell Asmar (ancient Eshnunna), Iraq Ur III or Isin-Larsa period, ca. 2100-1900 BCE

Metropolitan Museum of Art, 51.25.12

[arthistorywitches]

The reforms of Urukagina (about 2300 BCE) refer to the fact that women used to take two husbands, though at the time of his reign this was no longer allowed. In the laws of Eshnunna a man who took a second wife, after his first had given birth to a child, was to be expelled from the house without any possessions. In Eshnunna, if a woman had a child by another man while her husband was away at war, her husband was expected to take her back as his wife. No punishment for adultery was mentioned.

Merlin Stone, When God Was A Woman

[dam-nugig]

Votive statues from Sumerian c. 2900-2600 B.C.E., from the Square Temple at Eshnunna. Made of gypsum alabaster these figures vary from about 3 feet to just under a foot. They served as a stand in for elite members of Sumeria to be stand-ins in worship.

[lionofchaeronea]

Ancient Mesopotamian terracotta relief depicting a worker using an adze to cut a piece of a chariot.  Artist unknown; early 2nd millennium BCE.  From Eshnunna; now in the Louvre.

[arthistorywitches]

In Eshnunna (in Sumer) at about 2000 BCE, if a man raped a woman he was put to death. In the Old Babylonian period of Hammurabi, before the major incursions of the Indo-Europeans ... the same punishment was given.

Merlin Stone, When God Was A Woman

[andlandscape]

Eshnunna: Palace and Church

[dwellerinthelibrary]

The goddess Ishtar, crowned with a horned cap, brandishes a weapon. Found at Eshnunna (Tell Asmar, Iraq), and now in the Louvre. (Is it a weapon, and not some sort of divine symbol? Whatever it is, it’s what this pulp interpretation of the goddess is holding.)