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Mesopotamian Tablet with Puchase Details from Dilbat
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Mesopotamian Tablet with Puchase Details from Dilbat

This tablet lists purchases of land by a man named Tupsikka, with payments made in baskets of barley. One transaction reads "The price of the field is 90 gur-sag-gal 16 quarts of oil". Stone tablet, about 2400-2200 BCE. Excavated by Hormuzd...
Ancient Egyptian Religion: How were the Ancient Egyptian Gods and Goddesses Worshipped?
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Ancient Egyptian Religion: How were the Ancient Egyptian Gods and Goddesses Worshipped?

Ancient Egyptian Religion incorporated so many different aspects; mythology, spiritualism, science, magic, medicine psychology and herbology. With so many different facets, Ancient Egyptian religion was completely integrated into the lives...
Mesopotamian Spells Against Sorcerers
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Mesopotamian Spells Against Sorcerers

The first tablet of Maqlu (Akkadian, which means burning), the Akkadian series of incantations directed against demons and witches. The spells involved the manufacturer of wax figurines; these would then be burned in certain ceremonies. From...
Mesopotamian Ceramic Objects Used in Magical Liturgy
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Mesopotamian Ceramic Objects Used in Magical Liturgy

Three rounded ceramic objects with saw-teeth-like margins. They have small holes on both the ventral and the dorsal aspects. Upon moving them, a sound comes out as if there is a small object inside them. May have been used in religious settings...
Calvin's Institutes of the Christian Religion Title Page
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Calvin's Institutes of the Christian Religion Title Page

The title page of the 1559 fourth edition of Institutes of the Christian Religion by John Calvin (l. 1509-1564), the French Reformer, pastor, and theologian.
Mesopotamian Beer Rations Tablet
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Mesopotamian Beer Rations Tablet

The temples issued workers with daily rations of barley beer, the staple drink of Mesopotamia. The tablet was impressed with five different types of numerical symbol. From Mesopotamia, Iraq. Late Uruk Period, 3100-3000 BCE. (The British Museum...
Mesopotamian Tablet with Proverbs
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Mesopotamian Tablet with Proverbs

Fragment of a Neo-Assyrian clay tablet, with 8 lines of bilingual text, including proverbs and riddles, from the Library of Ashurbanipal, Kouyunjik, Iraq. The British Museum, London.
Mesopotamian Cylinder Naming Nabonidus & Sacred Buildings
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Mesopotamian Cylinder Naming Nabonidus & Sacred Buildings

Clay cylinder with Babylonian characters, recording the restoration of Sin's ziggurat at Ur and also asking him to protect Nabonidus and his son Belshazzar. From Ur, Southern Mesopotamia, modern-day Iraq. Neo-Babylonian Period, reign of Nabonidus...
Mesopotamian Record of Barley
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Mesopotamian Record of Barley

On this clay tablet, barley appears 4 times, depicted as a single stalk with ears at the top. Emmer wheat is different from barley, by writing numbers with extra strokes. Three different types of numerical symbol were used. From Mesopotamia...
Mesopotamian Tablet Describing the Walls of Babylon
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Mesopotamian Tablet Describing the Walls of Babylon

This clay tablet fragment gives detailed measurements for the inner city wall called Imgur-Enlil at the start of Nebuchadnezzar II's reign. It names landmarks including Zababa and Urash gates. Modern surveys show that the figures are realistic...
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