Babylonia
There are 354 items in Babylonia:
Statuette of a king |
Sulaymaniyah Museum
Archaeological Museum of the Kurdish part of Iraq, with finds from the Prehistory until Ottoman times. Includes finds from Hatra. There are 3 items in Sulaymaniyah Museum: …
Susa, Apadana, Inscription DSf (Babylonian) |
Upper part of the Codex of Hammurabi; taken from Babylon to Susa, it was excavated in what is now Iran. |
Susa, Statue of Darius, Subject b3b3l (Babylonia) |
Susa, Treaty between Naram-Sin and Elam |
Synesius, Eulogy of Baldness (16)
Synesius of Cyrene (c.370-c.413) was a Neo-Platonic philosopher who became bishop of Ptolemais in the Cyrenaica. He left behind a small corpus of texts that offer much information about daily life in Late Antiquity, and about the christianization of the…The Babylon Gymnasium Inscription
The Gymnasium Inscription is in fact not an inscription written on a stone, but a clay tablet written in Greek that is now in the Louvre, Paris. It gives a list of winners at an athletic contest and shows that…The Babylon Theater Inscription
The Theater Inscription is a brief, Greek inscription from Babylon that records the repair of the theater.The Theater Inscription from Babylon records the repair of the theater, which had been built by Alexander the Great. The most remarkable aspect is…The Edges of the Earth (1)
Edges of the earth: the parts of the world where, according to the myths of the ancient Greeks and Romans, fabulous creatures and savage barbarians lived. These legendary beliefs influenced geography and can still obstruct our understanding of ancient ethnography.Introduction …The End of Lydia: 547?
One of the most important texts for the study of the chronology of the sixth century BCE is the Nabonidus Chronicle, which seems to prove that the Persian king Cyrus the Great captured the Lydian capital Sardes in 547. This…
Babylonian map of the western Zagros. A road, a mountain, and a river are indicated. |