EditorialKudurru with Gula, goddess of medicine. Kassite period, 1595-1200 BCE Brought as booty from Babylon to Susa in the 12th BCE. Limestone, H: 36 cm Sb 27.
EditorialGoddess Gula with her dog. Kudurru of Nazimarutash. Above her the crescent of the moon god, the star of Ishtar, the solar disk of Shamash and the scorpion of the underworld. War booty brought to Susa, 12th BCE Black limestone, Kassite period, 55 x 22 c...
EditorialTerracotta figure of a dog, Neo-Babylonian dynasty, Mesopotamia, 700-500 BCE. The sitting dog occurs as a divine symbol from the Old Babylonian period and continues through to the Neo-Babylonian. Inscriptions identify it as the symbol of Gula, goddess ...