EditorialMesopotamian Art Babylon. Terracotta tiles decorated in floral motifs. Dated between 600-500 BC. They come from the Temple of Nabu in Borsippa. British Museum. London. England. United Kingdom.
EditorialSeal and imprint, Assyrian, 9th-6th BCE. Cultic scene, a man and a geni around the horned dragon, symbol of the gods Marduk and Nabu. Cornelian, H: 2,4 cm AO 22346.
EditorialA priest in prayer before the symbols for Marduk, chief god of Babylon, and Nabu, god of wisdom and writing. Neo-Babylonian 7th-6th BCE Round seal, blue glazed clay, 4,5 cm across AO 5684.
EditorialStone tablet of Nabu-apla-iddina, from Sippar, southern Iraq, Babylonian, around 870 BCE. On the top are 13 symbols of the gods designed to protect the legal document. Both the king, wearing the typical Babylonian royal hat and the priest whose hand is...
EditorialChristiane Schr?der, the regional head of the Nature Protection Federation of Brandenburg, known as NABU, stands for a portrait near the Tesla plant in Grünheide, Germany on July 2, 2021. (Andreas Meichsner/The New York Times)
EditorialThe Sun God Tablet. Limestone. The scene carved in the relief represents Nabu-aplu-iddina being led by the priest Nabu-nadin-shum and the goddess Aa into the presence of the Sun-god, woh is seated within Ebabbara. Before the god is the solar disc. Midd...
EditorialA clay tablet with a cuneiform inscription and an Aramaic caption. The text is a charter from Sippar with a claim of 15 shekels of silver, charged to a certain Bel-iddina son of Nabu-etir-napsjati, from the 29th year of King Darius king of Babylon and ...
EditorialCuneiform tablet: declaration before witnesses, archive of Iddin-Nabu and Shellebi, Achaemenid, Achaemenid, Date ca. 516 B.C., Mesopotamia, probably from Babylon (modern Hillah), Achaemenid, Clay, 3.1 x 4.6 x 1.7 cm (1 1/4 x 1 3/4 x 5/8 in.), Clay-Tabl...
EditorialCuneiform tablet: inscription of Nebuchadnezzar II recording his work on Ezida, the temple of the god Nabu at Borsippa, Babylonian, Neo-Babylonian, Date ca. 604562 B.C., Mesopotamia, Borsippa (?), Babylonian, Clay, 1.25 x 4.25 in. (3.18 x 10.8 cm), Cla...
EditorialCuneiform tablet: assignment of note, archive of Iddin-Nabu and Shellebi, Achaemenid, Achaemenid, Date ca. 495 B.C., Mesopotamia, probably from Babylon (modern Hillah), Achaemenid, Clay, 3.9 x 5.2 x 2 cm (1 1/2 x 2 x 3/4 in.), Clay-Tablets-Inscribed.
EditorialCuneiform tablet: house rental contract, archive of Iddin-Nabu and Shellebi, Achaemenid, Achaemenid, Date ca. 514 B.C., Mesopotamia, probably from Babylon (modern Hillah), Achaemenid, Clay, 5.2 x 6.5 x 2.5 cm (2 x 2 1/2 x 1 in.), Clay-Tablets-Inscribed.
EditorialCuneiform tablet: promissory note for silver, archive of Iddin-Nabu and Shellebi, Babylonian, Neo-Babylonian, Date ca. 562 BC, Mesopotamia, probably from Babylon (modern Hillah), Babylonian, Clay, 3.6 x 4.5 x 2 cm (1 3/8 x 1 3/4 x 3/4 in.), Clay-Tablet...
EditorialStela of Shamshi-Adad V (824-811 BC). King of Assyria. From the Temple of Nabu, from Nimrud (Iraq). Detail. British Museum. London. United Kingdom.
EditorialMesopotamian Art. Middle Babylonian. 875-850 B.C. Black diorite tablet carved with labelled scene showing Nabu-apla-iddina, the priest, standing with his right hand raised in the presence of the king.(Obverse). Inscribed with cuneiform script. British ...
EditorialLimestone figure of an attendant god. 811-783 BC. Neo-assyrian. From the Temple of Nabu, from Nimrud (Iraq). Detail. British Museum. London. United Kingdom.
EditorialMesopotamian Art Babylon. Terracotta tiles decorated in floral motifs. Dated between 600-500 BC. They come from the Temple of Nabu in Borsippa. British Museum. London. England. United Kingdom.
EditorialA priest in prayer before the symbols for Marduk, chief god of Babylon, and Nabu, god of wisdom and writing. Neo-Babylonian 7th-6th BCE Round seal, blue glazed clay, 4,5 cm across AO 5684.
EditorialMesopotamian Art Babylon. Terracotta tiles decorated in floral motifs. Dated between 600-500 BC. They come from the Temple of Nabu in Borsippa. British Museum. London. England. United Kingdom.
EditorialLimestone figure of an attendant god. 811-783 BC. Neo-assyrian. From the Temple of Nabu, from Nimrud (Iraq). Detail. British Museum. London. United Kingdom.
EditorialMesopotamian Art. Middle Babylonian. 875-850 B.C. Black diorite tablet carved with labelled scene showing Nabu-apla-iddina, the priest, standing with his right hand raised in the presence of the king.(Obverse). Inscribed with cuneiform script. British ...
EditorialARTE MESOPOTAMICO. S. IX a. C. Estela en esquisto dedicada al DIOS SOL por el rey NABU-APLA-IDDINA, rey de Babilonia que rein? hacia 888-855 a. C. Museo Brit?nico. Londres. Inglaterra. Reino Unido.
EditorialSeal and imprint, Assyrian, 9th-6th BCE. Cultic scene, a man and a geni around the horned dragon, symbol of the gods Marduk and Nabu. Cornelian, H: 2,4 cm AO 22346.
EditorialA priest in prayer before the symbols for Marduk, chief god of Babylon, and Nabu, god of wisdom and writing. Neo-Babylonian 7th-6th BCE Round seal, blue glazed clay, 4,5 cm across AO 5684.
EditorialStone tablet of Nabu-apla-iddina, from Sippar, southern Iraq, Babylonian, around 870 BCE. On the top are 13 symbols of the gods designed to protect the legal document. Both the king, wearing the typical Babylonian royal hat and the priest whose hand is...