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Ancient Near East

Myths of Babylonia and Assyria: Plates in Monochrome

Myths of Babylonia and Assyria, by Donald A. MacKenzie, [1915] | | PAGE | | EXAMPLES OF RACIAL TYPES facing From a drawing by E. Wallcousins | 2 | | STATUE OF A ROYAL PERSONAGE OR OFFICIAL OF NON-SEMITIC ORIGIN | 12 | | WORSHIP OF THE MOON GOD (CYLINDER-SEAL) | 50 | | WINGED MAN-HEADED LION From N.W. Palace of Nimroud | 62 | | TWO FIGURES OF DEMONS | 72 | | WINGED HUMAN-HEADED COW(?) From Kouyunjik (Nineveh) | 100 | | CYLINDER-SEAL IMPRESSIONS SHOWING MYTHOLOGICAL FIGURES AND DEITIES | 106 | | PLAQUE OF UR-NINA | 116 | | SILVER VASE DEDICATED TO THE GOD NIN-GIRSU BY ENTEMENA | 120 | | STELE OF NARAM SIN | 128 | | GUDEA From the statue in the Louvre, Paris | 130 | | p. xviii | | | | PAGE | | "THE SEVEN TABLETS OF CREATION" facing From the library of Ashur-bani-pal at Kouyunjik (Nineveh) | 138 | | SLIPPER-SHAPED COFFIN, MADE OF GLAZED EARTHENWARE | 214 | | STELE OF HAMMURABI, WITH "CODE OF LAWS" | 222 | | HAMMURABI RECEIVING THE "CODE OF LAWS" FROM THE SUN GOD | 248 | | THE HORSE IN WARFARE (ASHUR-NATSIR-PAL AND ARMY ADVANCING Marble slab from N.W. Palace of Nimroud | 270 | | LETTER FROM TUSHRATTA, KING OF MITANNI, TO AMENHOTEP III, KING OF EGYPT | 280 | | THE GOD NINIP AND ANOTHER DEITY | 302 | | SYMBOLS OF DEITIES AS ASTRONOMICAL SIGNS From sculptured stone in the British Museum | 306 | | ASHUR SYMBOLS | 334 | | WINGED DEITIES KNEELING BESIDE A SACRED TREE Marble slab from N.W. Palace of Nimroud | 340 | | EAGLE-HEADED WINGED DEITY (ASHUR) | 344 | | ASSYRIAN KING HUNTING LIONS | 384 | | TYRIAN GALLEY PUTTING OUT TO SEA Marble slab from Kouyunjik (Nineveh) | 388 | | STATUE OF ASHUR-NATSIR-PAL From S.W. Palace of Nimroud | 396 | | p. xix | | | | PAGE | | DETAILS FROM SECOND SIDE OF BLACK OBELISK OF SHALMANESER III facing | 410 | | STATUE OF NEBO, DEDICATED BY ADAD-NIRARI IV AND THE QUEEN SAMMU-RAMMAT | 422 | | TIGLATH-PILESER IV IN HIS CHARIOT | 446 | | COLOSSAL WINGED AND HUMAN-HEADED BULL AND MYTHOLOGICAL BEING From doorway in Palace of Sargon at Khorsabad | 456 | | ASSAULT ON THE CITY OF . . .ALAMMU (JERUSALEM) BY THE ASSYRIANS UNDER SENNACHERIB Marble slab from Kouyunjik (Nineveh) | 468 | | ASHUR-BANI-PAL RECLINING IN A BOWER Marble slab from Kouyunjik (Nineveh) | 486 | | PERSIANS BRINGING CHARIOTS, RINGS, AND WREATHS Bas-relief from Persepolis | 494 | | MAP OF BABYLONIA AND ASSYRIA | xx |