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Lipit-Ištar. House. First Dynasty of Isin. Lipit-Ishtar (Akkadian: Lipit-Ištar; fl. c. 1870 BC – c. 1860 BC by the short chronology of the ancient Near East) was the 5th king of the First Dynasty of Isin, according to the Sumerian King List (SKL). Also according to the SKL: he was the successor of Išme-Dagān. Ur-Ninurta then succeeded ...
The Cesnola Phoenician inscriptions are 28 Phoenician inscriptions from Cyprus (primarily Kition) in the Metropolitan Museum of Art 's Cesnola Collection. They were discovered by Luigi Palma di Cesnola during his tenure as the United States Consul to Cyprus from 1865 to 1871. [1] The were inscribed on votive bowls, two stelae, and on 18 ...
The earliest foundation pegs found to date contain Cuneiform inscriptions. By the rule of Ur-Namma, foundation pegs were inscribed in Sumerian . One example is the bust of King Ur-Nammu, the inscription of which has been translated from Sumerian: To Inanna the lady of Eanna, his lady, Ur-Namma the mighty king, King of Ur, King of Sumer and ...
Adad-apla-iddina, typically inscribed in cuneiform mdIM- DUMU .UŠ-SUM-na, mdIM-A-SUM-na [b] or dIM-ap-lam-i-din- [ nam] [2] meaning the storm god “Adad has given me an heir”, [3] was the 8th king of the 2nd Dynasty of Isin and the 4th Dynasty of Babylon and ruled c. 1064–1043. He was a contemporary of the Assyrian King Aššur-bêl-kala ...
The Behistun inscription, the longest and perhaps the most famous of the Achaemenid royal inscriptions. The Achaemenid royal inscriptions are the surviving inscriptions in cuneiform script from the Achaemenid Empire, dating from the 6th to 4th century BCE (reigns of Cyrus II to Artaxerxes III). These inscriptions are primary sources for the ...
Stone stelae, votive offerings, or ones probably commemorating victories and showing feasts, are also found from temples, which unlike more official ones lack inscriptions that would explain them; [4] the fragmentary Stele of the Vultures is an early example of the inscribed type, [5] and the Assyrian Black Obelisk of Shalmaneser III a large ...
Votive paintings in the ambulatory of the Chapel of Grace, in Altötting, Bavaria, Germany Mexican votive painting of 1911; the man survived an attack by a bull. Part of a female face with inlaid eyes, Ancient Greek Votive offering, 4th century BC, probably by Praxias, set in a niche of a pillar in the sanctuary of Asclepios in Athens, Acropolis Museum, Athens Bronze animal statuettes from ...
The Victory Stele of Naram-Sin is a stele that dates to approximately 2254–2218 BC, in the time of the Akkadian Empire, and is now at the Louvre in Paris. The relief measures 200 cm. in height (6' 7") [1] and was carved in pinkish sandstone, [2] with cuneiform writings in Akkadian and Elamite.