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The Nebo-Sarsekim Tablet is a clay cuneiform inscription referring to an official at the court of Nebuchadnezzar II, king of Babylon. It may also refer to an official named in the Biblical Book of Jeremiah .
[2] [3] Other species of snakes are also found in the temple. [2] [7] Visitors are warned against picking up the reptiles and placing them on their bodies to take pictures. Aside from the snakes, two brick wells known as the "Dragon Eye Wells/Dragon Pure Water Wells" are located inside the temple together with two giant brass bells. [1]
The geographical references in the Odyssey to the various locations seem confused and have given rise to much scholarly argument, beginning in ancient times. Odysseus' Ithaca is usually identified with the island Ithaki, as it shares the same name with the ancient location and has archaeological and historical associations with the Odyssey.
His main cult center was Gishbanda, [2] likely a rural settlement [11] located somewhere between Lagash and Ur. [12] His main temple was known simply as E-Gishbanda, [13] "house of Gishbanda," and it was commonly listed alongside the main temple of his father Ninazu, E-Gidda. [14] He also had a temple in Lagash, the E-badbarra, "house, outer wall."
The Musasir temple, built in 825 BC, was an important temple in Musasir, the holy city of Urartu. The Temple at Musasir appears in an Assyrian bas-relief which adorned the palace of King Sargon II at Khorsabad , to commemorate his victory over "the seven kings of Urartu" in 714 BC.
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Homer connected the name to the nymph Mycene, the daughter of the river god Inachos of Argos (Odyssey 2.120). In the Iliad the name of the city is spelled Mykḗnē (Μυκήνη). [12] The later form, Mykē̂nai (Μυκῆναι), was the result of a well-known sound change in Attic-Ionic, which shifted some instances of ā to ē.
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