Akkadian Posters and Art Prints

"libation vase of Gudea"

The cuneiform sign meaning "king" (lugal in Sumerian).

Shar-kali-sharri-Akkad Ibni sharrum impression

Lamassu Human-headed Winged Bull, The lamassu is a celestial being from ancient Mesopotamian religion bearing a human head, bull's body, sometimes with the horns and the ears of a bull, and wings. It appears frequently in Mesopotamian art.

Marshes

King of Uruk From Sumerian Civilization

King Ashurbanipal

Inanna Star Fiery

Ashur

Assyria Star

Lyres of Ur - Babylon

Enki Post

Babylon Star

Lyres of Ur - Harps

Babylon Palm

From Sumerian Civilization

Gold Bull of Ishtar gate

Blue Lion of Ishtar gate

A Neo-Assyrian princess contemplates her unborn child in the 8th century BCE.

Lamassu Human-headed Winged Bull, The lamassu is a celestial being from ancient Mesopotamian religion bearing a human head, bull's body, sometimes with the horns and the ears of a bull, and wings. It appears frequently in Mesopotamian art.

From Sumerian Civilization Lyres

Hammurabi

From Sumerian Civilization

Sumerian Lyres

The ancient sources give some clues as to who lived in the Mesopotamian marshland and what the landscape looked like in the first millennium. Two terms are used in the written sources to refer to the marshland in southern Babylonia: agammu “marsh, swamp” and appāru “reed marsh, canebrake”. The Sealand was inhabited by Chaldeans and Aramaeans. Šūzubu (Mušēzib-Marduk), the Chaldean leader of Bīt-Dakkūri, is referred to in Sennacherib’s inscriptions as “a Chaldean who lives among the marshes (agammu)” and Bīt-Jakīn is described as the land “which is in the marshes (agammu) and canebrakes (appāru)”. Concerning Bēl-iqīša, the leader of the mighty Aramaean tribe of Gambūlu, Esarhaddon says that his residence “is located twelve leagues distance...

Turquoise Lion of Ishtar gate

The Standard of Ur

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Inanna - Dumuzi

Ishtar Gate

Inanna is an ancient Mesopotamian goddess associated with love, beauty, sex, war, justice and political power. She was originally worshiped in Sumer and was later worshipped by the Akkadians, Babylonians, and Assyrians under the name Ishtar. She was known as the "Queen of Heaven" and was the patron goddess of the Eanna temple at the city of Uruk.

Anunnaki Royal Necklace

Babylon the gate of Gods located in the Babylon - Iraq

The lamassu is a celestial being from ancient Mesopotamian religion bearing a human head, bull's body, sometimes with the horns and the ears of a bull, and wings. It appears frequently in Mesopotamian art.

Lamassu Human-headed Winged Bull The lamassu is a celestial being from ancient Mesopotamian religion bearing a human head, bull's body, sometimes with the horns and the ears of a bull, and wings. It appears frequently in Mesopotamian art.