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| //Current location//: [[http://www.louvre.fr/en/oeuvre-notices/law-code-hammurabi-king-babylon|Louvre Museum, Paris]]\\ | //Current location//: [[http://www.louvre.fr/en/oeuvre-notices/law-code-hammurabi-king-babylon|Louvre Museum, Paris]]\\ |
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| [[http://cdli.ox.ac.uk/wiki/doku.php?id=sumerian_kings_list|2. The Weld-Blundell Prism/The Sumerian King List]] | |
| [[http://cdli.ox.ac.uk/wiki/doku.php?id=sumerian_kings_list|{{ :images:wiki:1to10icons:the_sumerian_king_list.png?100|}}]] | |
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| From mythical kings including Gilgamesh, to historical figures, this document lists an ideologically significant series of Mesopotamian kings. [[sumerian_kings_list|More information...]] | |
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| //Artifact//: Clay prism\\ | |
| //Provenience//: Unknown\\ | |
| //Period//: Early Old Babylonian (ca. 2000-1800 BC)\\ | |
| //Current location//: [[http://www.ashmolean.org/ash/faqs/q001/|Ashmolean Museum, Oxford]] (Ashm 1923-444)\\ | |
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| [[http://cdli.ox.ac.uk/wiki/doku.php?id=middle_assyrian_laws_a|3. The Middle Assyrian Laws, A]] | [[http://cdli.ox.ac.uk/wiki/doku.php?id=bisitun_inscription|2. The Bīsitūn Inscription]] |
| [[http://cdli.ox.ac.uk/wiki/doku.php?id=middle_assyrian_laws_a|{{ :images:wiki:1to10icons:the_middle_assyrian_laws_a.png?100}}]] | [[bisitun_inscription|{{ :images:wiki:1to10icons:the_bisitun_inscription.png?100}}]] |
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| A law collection famously including some of the oldest written regulations on women’s behaviour. [[middle_assyrian_laws_a|More information...]] | Often considered a key to the decipherment of cuneiform, the Persian “King of Kings” Darius tells how he seized the throne in this trilingual inscription. [[bisitun_inscription|More information...]] |
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| //Artifact//: Clay tablet\\ | //Artifact//: Rock relief\\ |
| //Provenience//: Assur\\ | //Provenience//: Kermanshah Province, Iran\\ |
| //Period//: Middle Assyrian (ca. 1400-1000 BC)\\ | //Period//: Persian\\ |
| //Current location//: Vorderasiatisches Museum, Berlin\\ | //Current location//: Kermanshah Province, Iran\\ |
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| | [[http://cdli.ox.ac.uk/wiki/doku.php?id=the_flood_tablet|3. The Flood Tablet]] |
| [[http://cdli.ox.ac.uk/wiki/doku.php?id=sargons_letter_to_ashur|4. Sargon's Letter to Ashur]] | |
| [[http://cdli.ox.ac.uk/wiki/doku.php?id=sargons_letter_to_ashur|{{ :images:wiki:1to10icons:sargon_s_letter_to_ashur.png?100}}]] | |
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| King Sargon II of Assyria presents his military exploits in a letter addressed “to Assur, father of the Gods...” [[sargons_letter_to_ashur|More information...]] | |
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| //Artifact//: Clay tablet\\ | |
| //Provenience//: Khorsabad\\ | |
| //Period//: Neo-Assyrian (ca. 911-612 BC)\\ | |
| //Current location//: Louvre Museum, Paris (AO 5372)\\ | |
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| [[http://cdli.ox.ac.uk/wiki/doku.php?id=the_flood_tablet|5. The Flood Tablet]] | |
| [[the_flood_tablet|{{ :images:wiki:1to10icons:the_flood_tablet.png?100}}]] | [[the_flood_tablet|{{ :images:wiki:1to10icons:the_flood_tablet.png?100}}]] |
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| [[http://cdli.ox.ac.uk/wiki/doku.php?id=complex_calculations_jemdetnasr|6. Complex surface calculations at Jemdet Nasr]] | [[http://cdli.ox.ac.uk/wiki/doku.php?id=sumerian_kings_list|4. The Weld-Blundell Prism/The Sumerian King List]] |
| [[complex_calculations_jemdetnasr|{{ :images:wiki:1to10icons:complex_surface_calculations_at_jemdet_nasr.png?100}}]] | [[http://cdli.ox.ac.uk/wiki/doku.php?id=sumerian_kings_list|{{ :images:wiki:1to10icons:the_sumerian_king_list.png?100|}}]] |
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| An economic document providing some of the earliest written evidence for social hierarchy and unequal distribution of resources. [[complex_calculations_jemdetnasr|More information...]] | From mythical kings including Gilgamesh, to historical figures, this document lists an ideologically significant series of Mesopotamian kings. [[sumerian_kings_list|More information...]] |
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| //Artifact//: Clay tablet\\ | //Artifact//: Clay prism\\ |
| //Provenience//: Jemdet Nasr\\ | //Provenience//: Unknown\\ |
| //Period//: Uruk III (ca. 3200-3000 BC)\\ | //Period//: Early Old Babylonian (ca. 2000-1800 BC)\\ |
| //Current location//: Ashmolean Museum, Oxford (Ashm 1926-583)\\ | //Current location//: [[http://www.ashmolean.org/ash/faqs/q001/|Ashmolean Museum, Oxford]] (Ashm 1923-444)\\ |
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| [[http://cdli.ox.ac.uk/wiki/doku.php?id=cylinders_of_gudea|7. The Cylinders of Gudea]] | [[cyrus_cylinder|{{ http://cdli.ucla.edu/dl/photo/P386349_d.jpg?100|}}]] |
| [[cylinders_of_gudea|{{ :images:wiki:1to10icons:the_cylinders_of_gudea.png?100}}]] | [[http://cdli.ox.ac.uk/wiki/doku.php?id=cyrus_cylinder|5. The Cyrus Cylinder]] |
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| A set of large cylinders inscribed with a Sumerian hymnic composition in which king Gudea receives instructions in a dream to build a temple. [[cylinders_of_gudea|More information...]] | Famously cited today as a cultural and political document, this text presents Cyrus, king of Persia, as liberator of Babylon. [[cyrus_cylinder|More information...]] |
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| //Artifact//: Clay cylinders (and fragments)\\ | //Artifact//: Clay cylinder\\ |
| | //Provenience//: Babylon?\\ |
| | //Period//: Achaemenid (547-331 BC)\\ |
| | //Current location//: British Museum, London\\ |
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| | [[http://cdli.ox.ac.uk/wiki/doku.php?id=stela_of_vultures|6. The Stele of Vultures]] |
| | [[stela_of_vultures|{{ :images:wiki:1to10icons:the_stela_of_vultures.png?100}}]] |
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| | An Early Dynastic Sumerian monument of conflict perpetrated by King and God. [[stela_of_vultures|More information...]] |
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| | //Artifact//: Stone stele\\ |
| //Provenience//: Girsu, modern Tello\\ | //Provenience//: Girsu, modern Tello\\ |
| //Period//: Lagash II (ca. 2200-2100 BC)\\ | //Period//: ED IIIb (ca. 2500-2340)\\ |
| //Current location//: [[http://www.louvre.fr/en/oeuvre-notices/cylinders-gudea|Louvre Museum, Paris]] | //Current location//: [[http://www.louvre.fr/en/oeuvre-notices/stele-vultures|Louvre Museum, Paris]]\\ |
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| [[http://cdli.ox.ac.uk/wiki/doku.php?id=manistusu_obelisk|8. The Manistusu obelisk]] | |
| | [[http://cdli.ox.ac.uk/wiki/doku.php?id=manistusu_obelisk|7. The Manistusu obelisk]] |
| [[manistusu_obelisk|{{ :images:wiki:1to10icons:the_manistusu_obelisk.png?100}}]] | [[manistusu_obelisk|{{ :images:wiki:1to10icons:the_manistusu_obelisk.png?100}}]] |
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| //Period//: Old Akkadian (ca. 2340-2200 BC)\\ | //Period//: Old Akkadian (ca. 2340-2200 BC)\\ |
| //Current location//: [[http://www.louvre.fr/en/oeuvre-notices/obelisk|Louvre Museum, Paris]] (Sb 20)\\ | //Current location//: [[http://www.louvre.fr/en/oeuvre-notices/obelisk|Louvre Museum, Paris]] (Sb 20)\\ |
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| [[http://cdli.ox.ac.uk/wiki/doku.php?id=stela_of_vultures|9. The Stele of Vultures]] | [[http://cdli.ox.ac.uk/wiki/doku.php?id=complex_calculations_jemdetnasr|8. Complex surface calculations at Jemdet Nasr]] |
| [[stela_of_vultures|{{ :images:wiki:1to10icons:the_stela_of_vultures.png?100}}]] | [[complex_calculations_jemdetnasr|{{ :images:wiki:1to10icons:complex_surface_calculations_at_jemdet_nasr.png?100}}]] |
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| An Early Dynastic Sumerian monument of conflict perpetrated by King and God. [[stela_of_vultures|More information...]] | An economic document providing some of the earliest written evidence for social hierarchy and unequal distribution of resources. [[complex_calculations_jemdetnasr|More information...]] |
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| //Artifact//: Stone stele\\ | //Artifact//: Clay tablet\\ |
| //Provenience//: Girsu, modern Tello\\ | //Provenience//: Jemdet Nasr\\ |
| //Period//: ED IIIb (ca. 2500-2340)\\ | //Period//: Uruk III (ca. 3200-3000 BC)\\ |
| //Current location//: [[http://www.louvre.fr/en/oeuvre-notices/stele-vultures|Louvre Museum, Paris]]\\ | //Current location//: Ashmolean Museum, Oxford (Ashm 1926-583)\\ |
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| [[http://cdli.ox.ac.uk/wiki/doku.php?id=bisitun_inscription|10. The Bīsitūn Inscription]] | [[http://cdli.ox.ac.uk/wiki/doku.php?id=sargons_letter_to_ashur|9. Sargon's Letter to Ashur]] |
| [[bisitun_inscription|{{ :images:wiki:1to10icons:the_bisitun_inscription.png?100}}]] | [[http://cdli.ox.ac.uk/wiki/doku.php?id=sargons_letter_to_ashur|{{ :images:wiki:1to10icons:sargon_s_letter_to_ashur.png?100}}]] |
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| Often considered a key to the decipherment of cuneiform, the Persian “King of Kings” Darius tells how he seized the throne in this trilingual inscription. [[bisitun_inscription|More information...]] | King Sargon II of Assyria presents his military exploits in a letter addressed “to Assur, father of the Gods...” [[sargons_letter_to_ashur|More information...]] |
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| //Artifact//: Rock relief\\ | //Artifact//: Clay tablet\\ |
| //Provenience//: Kermanshah Province, Iran\\ | //Provenience//: Khorsabad\\ |
| //Period//: Persian\\ | //Period//: Neo-Assyrian (ca. 911-612 BC)\\ |
| //Current location//: Kermanshah Province, Iran\\ | //Current location//: Louvre Museum, Paris (AO 5372)\\ |
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| | [[Plimpton322|{{ :p322-face-detoure.jpg?100|}}]] |
| | [[http://cdli.ox.ac.uk/wiki/doku.php?id=plimpton322|10. Pythagorean Triples]] |
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| | This widely known mathematical text in a tabular layout contains an array of Pythagorean triples. [[plimpton322|More information...]] |
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| | //Artifact//: Clay tablet\\ |
| | //Provenience//: Unprovenanced\\ |
| | //Period//: Old Babylonian (ca 1800-1595 BC)\\ |
| | //Current location//: Columbia University, New York City\\ |
