Images of Cultural Artifacts and Architecture
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Below are
references to historical artifacts, site photos, and images.
This material is presented as an index to the material by
empire and site name. It is a quick view of the artifact information
in the website.
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General ResourcesCuneiform Digital Library Initiative hosted by: Cuneiform Digital Library InitiativeIraqi Cultural Property Image Collection: US Department of State hosted by: U.S. Department of State, Bureau of Educational and Cultural AffairsOriental Institute Mesopotamian Gallery hosted by: Oriental Institute, University of Chicago Era and Empire ArtifactsAbbasid Caliphate Akkadian Empire Assyrian Gawra Greek Halaf Period Hassuna Period Jemdet Nasr Kassite Babylonian Kurdistan Mesopotamia Mongol Il-Khan Empire Neo-Babylonian Ottoman Empire Parthian Empire Persian Achaemenid Empire Roman Empire Samarra Period Sasanian Empire Seleucid Empire Sumerian / Early Dynastic Ubaid Period Urartu Uruk Period
Site ArtifactsAbu Salabikh Adab (Tell Bismaya) Aqar Quf (Dur Kurigalzu) Ashur (Assur, Qalat Sherqat) Babylon (Babel) Baghdad Basra (Khatta) Borsippa (Birs Nimrud) Ctesiphon Eridu (Abu Shahrain) Eshnunna (Tell Asmar)  | - Eshnunna in the Ur III and Old-Babylonian Period: A Test Case for the Impact of Political Collapse hosted by: Oriental Institute, University of Chicago
- Law Code of Eshnunna hosted by: U.S. Department of State, Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs
- Statue; male, bearded, long hair, bare-chested, wearing flounced skirt, hands folded - ca. 2600 B.C. hosted by: Oriental Institute, University of Chicago
- Two-sided relief; front: bearded central figure with scaled body sitting on dragon - ca. 2250 B.C. hosted by: Oriental Institute, University of Chicago
- Votive statues, from the Square Temple, Eshnunna c.2900-2600 BCE hosted by: School of Humanities, Art History, and Film, Australian National University
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Fara (Ancient Shuruppak) Farukhabad (Tepe Farukhabad) Girsu (Tello) Hatra Isin Karbala (Kerbala) Khafajah (Tutub)  | - Archaeological Site Photography: Khafajah hosted by: Oriental Institute, University of Chicago
- Plaque, decorated with three registers of relief, showing banquet scene with musicians - ca. 2600 B.C. hosted by: Oriental Institute, University of Chicago
- Votive plaque, fragmentary; relief displays seated, long-haired person in flounced garment, wearing a 'horned' cap - ca. 2600 B.C. hosted by: Oriental Institute, University of Chicago
- Bowl with mosaic inlays on outside - ca. 3000 B.C. hosted by: Oriental Institute, University of Chicago
- Pottery jar; carinated shoulders, four pierced lugs at shoulder; polychrome- ca. 2800 B.C. ( IM42588) hosted by: Oriental Institute, University of Chicago
- Pottery jar; carinated shoulders, four pierced lugs at shoulder; polychrome- ca. 2800 B.C. (IM42587) hosted by: Oriental Institute, University of Chicago
- Two wrestlers balancing vessels (jars) on their heads- ca. 2600 B.C. hosted by: Oriental Institute, University of Chicago
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Khorsabad (Dur Sharrukin) Kifl Kirkuk (Karkuk) Kish (Tell Uheimir, Ingharra, Abu Sudeirah) Lagash (Al-Hiba) Mosul Nimrud (Kalhu, Calah) Nineveh (Tell Kuyunjik)  | - Archaeological Site Photography: Nineveh hosted by: Oriental Institute, University of Chicago
- Bowl, pedestaled; monochrome painting - ca. 2800 B.C. hosted by: Oriental Institute, University of Chicago
- Head of a statue(?); hosted by: Oriental Institute, University of Chicago
- Visions of Iraq: Topography and Historical Monuments: View Near Nineveh hosted by: Visions of Iraq, Oberlin College
- Visions of Iraq: Topography and Historical Monuments: Walls of Nineveh hosted by: Visions of Iraq, Oberlin College
- BBC Ancient History: Assyrian Limestone Panel - King Ashurbanipal drawing a bow. hosted by: BBC
- BBC Ancient History: The Flood Tablet hosted by: BBC
- Cuneiform tablet telling the Epic of Creation, Part of the library of King Ashurbanipal (reigned 669-631 BC) hosted by: Britannica Encyclopedia Online
- Cuneiform tablet telling the legend of Etana, Part of the library of King Ashurbanipal (reigned 669-631 BC) hosted by: Britannica Encyclopedia Online
- Cuneiform tablet telling the legend of Ishtar's descent to the Underworld, Part of the library of King Ashurbanipal (reigned 669-631 BC) hosted by: Britannica Encyclopedia Online
- Cuneiform tablet with omens, Part of the library of King Ashurbanipal (reigned 669-631 BC) hosted by: Britannica Encyclopedia Online
- The Flood Tablet, relating part of the Epic of Gilgamesh, Part of the library of King Ashurbanipal (reigned 669-631 BC) hosted by: Britannica Encyclopedia Online
- The White Obelisk, Some of the earliest scenes of Assyrian narrative art hosted by: Britannica Encyclopedia Online
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Nippur Samarra Seleucia Shatt al-Nil Shubat-Enlil (Modern Tell Leilan, Tall Laylan) Sippar (Abu Habba) Susa (Biblical Shushan, Modern Shush in Iran) Tell Billa (Shibaniba) Tell El-Ubaid (Tell el'Ubaid) Tell Harmal (Ancient Shaduppum) Tepe Gawra Ur (Tell al-Muqayyar)  | - Archaeological Site Photography: Ur hosted by: Oriental Institute, University of Chicago
- BBC Ancient History: Mosaic Tablet from Ur hosted by: BBC
- Bowl; relief decoration (bulls and grain ears) - ca. 3000 B.C.
- ca. 3000 B.C. hosted by: Oriental Institute, University of Chicago
- The Royal Graves of Ur hosted by: British Museum Compass
- UPM in Ur hosted by: University of Pennsylvania Museum
- Ur hosted by: British Museum Compass
- Ur of the Chaldees - Search Result hosted by: University of Michigan Museum of Anthropology
- Ur of the Chaldees - Woolley's excavation. (HW47).
1966 hosted by: University of Michigan Museum of Anthropology
- Visions of Iraq: Topography and Historical Monuments: Ziggurat of Ur hosted by: Visions of Iraq, Oberlin College
- BBC Ancient History: Clay Figurine from Ur hosted by: BBC
- The Ziggurat of Ur hosted by: Mesopotamia: The British Museum
- BBC Ancient History: Ubaid Figurines from Ur hosted by: BBC
- Terracotta figurine with 'lizard-shaped' face, nude, female - ca. 4000 B.C. hosted by: Oriental Institute, University of Chicago
- Terracotta figurine with 'lizard-shaped' face, nude, female, breast-feeding infant;- ca. 4000 B.C. hosted by: Oriental Institute, University of Chicago
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Uruk (Erech, Warka)  | - Archaeological Site Photography: Uruk hosted by: Oriental Institute, University of Chicago
- Jar, carinated shoulder, spouted, with symmetrical relief decoration: lions attacking bulls (body), two lions flanking spout - ca. 3000 B.C. hosted by: Oriental Institute, University of Chicago
- Uruk-Warka - Search Result hosted by: University of Michigan Museum of Anthropology
- Uruk-Warka - Search Result hosted by: University of Michigan Museum of Anthropology
- Vase, relief decoration in four registers - ca. 3000 B.C. hosted by: Oriental Institute, University of Chicago
- The Flood Tablet, relating part of the Epic of Gilgamesh hosted by: British Museum Compass
- Wall Ornament from Karaindash Temple, Uruk hosted by: U.S. Department of State, Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs
- Head of a Woman from Warka hosted by: U.S. Department of State, Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs
- Jar, spouted, with mosaic inlay (shell, lapis lazuli) - ca. 3000 B.C. hosted by: Oriental Institute, University of Chicago
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