— Illustrations —
- on fallen enemy warrior god brandishing sword, whirling mace and treading
- offering; robed god 7 13 The gods Amurru (with crooks) and Adad; robed king with- 7 14 Lama; warrior king; god with ladder-patterned robe; filling motifs
- heroes fighting lion 7 15 Lion-griffins attacking goat; lion attacking one of two nude
- 7 16 Two figures; filling motifs
- 7 17 Seated god; filling motifs
- 7 18 Worshipper with fan before seated figure with cup; filling motifs
- 7 19 Scene based on Egyptian depictions of Levantines
- 7 20 Water god, with flowing vases, between mountains and flowers
- 7 21 Animal; tree; border of triangles
- 7 22 Robed figure holding staff
- 7 23 Votive seal carved in relief (NB). The storm god Adad on a dais
- 7 24 Bird-griffin and winged gazelle
- 7 25 Hero fighting lion
- 7 26 Hero and ostrich
- 7 27 Hero fighting lion
- 7 28 A god and mythical beasts
- 7 29 Winged heroes with bird and sphinx; filling motif
- filling motifs 7 30 Winged hero between ibex-horned, winged sphinxes;
- 7 31 Winged hero fighting inverted lions; filling motifs
- 7 32 Winged hero between bird-griffins
- 7 33 Tree flanked by winged heroes with cone and bucket
- with symbols 7 34 Priest with cup and bucket before offering table and altars
- 7 35 Pyramidal seal. Priest before altar with symbols
- 7 36 Enlarged ancient impressions, made by two Babylonian seals
- 8 1 The ‘Loftus Hoard’
- to a seated male deity 9 1 Seal of a presentation scene of a figure being led by a goddess
- multi-colored wrap garments 9 2 Scene from a wall painting found at the palace of Mari, showing
- 9 3 Relief sculpture from Khorsabad showing fringed skirt
- 9 4 Seal depicting a hero fighting wild animals
- border, from Khorsabad 9 5 Assyrian palace relief sculpture of a threshold with fringe outer
- 9 6 Close-up of textile pseudomorph from Abu Salabikh
- 10 1 Stele of Ashurbanipal, 668 – 652 BC
- 10 2 Stele of Hammurabi, 1760 BC
- 10 3 Lu-Nanna votive portrait, 1792 – 1750 BC
- 10 4 Kudurru of Nebuchadnezzar I, 1125 – 1104 BC
- 10 5 Kudurru of Marduk Nadin Ahhe, 1099 – 1082 BC
- 10 6 Throne room wall of Nebuchadnezzar II, 604 – 562 BC
- 10 7 Portrait of a woman, third–second centuries BC
- 11 1 Assyrian palace relief showing a fisherman
- of the early second millennium BC 14 1 Map showing changes in the main inter-regional trade routes
- dating to the eighteenth year of Ammisaduqa 14 2 Two impressions of the same seal on a tablet from Hursagkalama
- 16 1 Tablet from the Egibi archive showing a field plan
- 16 2 Schematic interpretation of the field plan
- 17 1 Seal impression of king Mesannepada of Ur, 2563 – 2524 BCE
- 17 2 A Sumerian temple of early third millennium BCE
- twenty-fourth century BCE 17 3 Fragment of a storage jar from Tepe Gawra, layer VI,
- 18 1 Reconstructed map of Babylon in the first millennium
- and the Ishtar Gate 18 2 Model of the Marduk sanctuaries in Babylon; the Processional Way
- 19 1 Detail of the Code of Ur-Nammu, showing the measuring rope
- 20 1 Kudurru of Marduk-apla-iddina II
- palm grove 20 2 Assyrian palace relief showing Chaldean captives in a date
- the woman is drinking beer through a long straw 21 1 Babylonian terracotta relief of couple making love, while
- 21 2 Old Babylonian terracotta bust of a woman
- 23 1 Green calcite cylinder seal and impression depicting a cultic scene
- 23 2 Drawing of the top two registers of the cultic vase from Uruk
- 23 3 Impression of Old Babylonian cylinder seal
- Babylonian king, Marduk-zakir-shumi 24 1 Drawing based on a cylinder seal of Marduk dedicated by the
- 25 1 Old Babylonian clay model of a sheep’s liver, c. 1700 BC
- on a patient 27 1 Seal impression showing an incantation priest at work
- 28 1 Example of a memorandum which shows signs of carelessness
- 28 2 Passage of a letter which shows a change of mind by the scribe
- 28 3 Envelope of a letter by Zimri-Lim Tisˇ-ulme
- 28 4 Label of a tablet-basket in the shape of an olive
- 28 5 Example of a copy of a letter within a letter
- 28 6 A short letter of accreditation
- 29 1 The obverse of a mathematical tablet
- 29 2 The geometrical manipulations implicit in YBC
- 30 1 A fragment of the first tablet of Erimhush from Nineveh
- 30 2 An example of the first tablet of Ea, from Assur
- 30 3 An example of the second tablet of Aa, from Sippar
- of Gilgamesh 31 1 Ashur-ra’im-napishti’s copy of Tablet VI of the Babylonian Epic
- 32 1 Copy of part of a Babylonian treatise on astronomy and astrology
- 33 1 Kudurru of the Babylonian king Marduk-zakir-shumi
- king of Egypt 34 1 Letter from Burnaburiash, king of Babylon, to Amenophis IV,