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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 ...
A votive tablet of Entemena, made of alabaster, with its foundation nail. Museum of the Ancient Orient, Istanbul. Several votive tablets in the name of Entemena are known. They usually records Entemena's name, title and filiation, and his accomplishment in establishing temples or devotional images.
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 ...
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.
There are also a few texts on baked-clay cones (J, K, L), a clay disk (M), and clay tablets (N, O, R). Some objects (A, I, C) include both Linear Elamite and Akkadian cuneiform inscriptions. The bilingual and bigraphic inscriptions of the monumental stairway as a whole, and the votive boulder B have inspired the first attempts at decipherment ...
His standard inscription characterizes him as the "farmer who piles up the produce (of the land) in granaries." Four royal inscriptions are extant including cones celebrating the building of the wall of Isin, naming him as "Damiq-ilišu is the favorite of the god Ninurta" also recollected in a year-name and "suitable for the office of en priest befitting the goddess Inanna."
A votive mace, made of dark green marble, [11] [12] is also known with an inscription mentioning Shu-turul and the dedication of a temple to Nergal: Votive mace of Shu-turul, with an inscription with his name on the flange. Room 56, display case 11, British Museum [13] [12]
Registration. ME 91000. The Tablet of Shamash (also known as the Sun God Tablet or the Nabuapaliddina Tablet) is a stele recovered from the ancient Babylonian city of Sippar in southern Iraq in 1881; it is now a major piece in the British Museum 's ancient Middle East collection and is a visual attestation of Babylonian cosmology.