The Babylonian World (Routledge Worlds)

— Dominique Collon — Figure 7. 4 Presentation scene before seated king (note the small dancing lute-player). Inscribed ‘Sin-Ishm ...

The Old Babylonian period is particularly important because it was at this time that the technology for cutting hard stones was ...

tablet and included the list of officials and witnesses present. The tablet was then allowed to dry, presumably in the presence ...

Finally, a large number of bullae or dockets are known: lumps of clay carefully shaped around the knots in the strings securing ...

box at the end of the scene, and typically naming the sun god Shamash and his bride Aya (Figure 7. 10 ); it is frequently replac ...

ruler he serves (Figure 7. 4 ) although, paradoxically, in the design the king is only occasionally replaced by a seated deity ( ...

the rod and ring of divinity and justice. He stands in what has been termed the ‘ascending posture’, with his long skirt hanging ...

shaven apart from a forelock, and they can hold a pail, and a libation cup or a frond the Babylonian equivalent of the aspergum ...

The craftsmanship is exceptional, particularly if we consider that seals produced before about 1740 BCwere made with hand-held t ...

An extraordinary seal of Sippar type (Figure 7. 9 ), and impressions from Sippar itself, Babylonia and Syria, depict personifica ...

First Kassite seals (Figure 7. 17 ) are characterised by seated deities or elongated figures of a deity and worshipper, and a lo ...

— Babylonian seals — Figure 7. 18 Worshipper with fan before seated figure with cup; filling motifs. Inscribed ‘It is the god wh ...

or winged demon) framed by a terminal tree or inscription (although sometimes the inscriptions are written horizontally). Second ...

and only a few have inscriptions of any length or historical import (Figures 7. 22 and 7. 23 ; and see Figures 7. 27 and 7. 28 ; ...

— Dominique Collon — Figure 7. 22 Robed figure holding staff. Inscribed ‘(Seal) of Marduk-shakin-shumi, son of Marduk- zera-ubal ...

and a probable date range from the ninth to eighth centuries BC(Collon 2001 : 49 – 50 , nos. 54 – 65 ). Seals of the second grou ...

— Dominique Collon — Figure 7. 25 Hero fighting lion. Inscribed ‘(Seal) of Haza-ilani’. Pale brown chalcedony. 3. 8 × BM ANE ...

— Babylonian seals — Figure 7. 27 Hero fighting lion. Inscribed ‘For his Lord, Marduk-apla-iddina’. Chalcedony. 3. 6 × 1. 6. Bag ...

generally rampant but occasionally inverted (Figures 7. 30 and 7. 31 ). It was this design the three-figure contest – that was ...

— Babylonian seals — Figure 7. 30 Winged hero between ibex-horned, winged sphinxes; filling motifs. Green-blue and black jasper. ...