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Assyrian Artifacts
Anonymous lithograph with original hand coloring.
One of them with a goat head, another with a winged horse with horns (Assyrian - Mesopotamia)
https://t.co/s7OEKmOKKn
Mesopotamia Crowley. I had a lot of fun on his hair, especially that braid!
#SASANIAN PARCEL GILT SILVER DISH
C5TH-6TH CENTURY AD 9 ½in diam
Est: £10,000/15,000
#ELAMITE SILVER BEAKER
c.2500-1500 BC 4 11/16in high
Est: £30,000/50,000
#MESOPOTAMIAN GOLD BULL PENDANT
c.2550-2250 BC 1.5in high
Est: £GBP 70,000/90,000
#Christies
Why did we need a book about Christians in fifteenth-century Mesopotamia? Weren't they just a tiny sliver of the population? What did they matter? Isn't this book just special pleading for an irrelevant minority?
Actually, were they a minority?
https://t.co/hkZUONbLPv
1/x ~tac
El desencuentro de #Macron y #BorisJohnson en el #G7Cornwall a imagen de 'Niños en la playa' de Charles Garabed Atamian (1872 – 1947) por @DaveBrownToons
➕#humor al #arte / #art #cartoon #cartoons #CartoonArt
➡️➡️https://t.co/igz7bcWjVl
Dave Brown's #RoguesGallery cartoon, after #CharlesGarabedAtamian, for @Independent... #BorisJohnson #EmmanuelMacron #G7Cornwall #Brexit #NIProtocol - political cartoon gallery in London https://t.co/dePcTdnXF6
Tomorrow's #RoguesGallery cartoon, after #CharlesGarabedAtamian, for @Independent... #BorisJohnson #EmmanuelMacron #G7Cornwall #Brexit #NIProtocol
Rule by the Macedonian-born Seleucid dynasty did little to deter the flourishing culture of Mesopotamia. Seleucid kings readily adopted the traditional political and religious roles of Near-Eastern rulers, and cuneiform continued to be used despite the preference for Greek.
Mesopotamia, 3004BC - @Eden_n_Tunnels
Golgotha, 33AD- @timema_sheen
This episode we’re off ONCE AGAIN to the cradle of civilization to show you that spending time which yo’ family really can sometimes… literally be hell. See more at @ColoredFolklore Podcast. #MiddleEast #Sumerians #mesopotamia #illustration #characterdesign #oc #art
Zasalamel's backgrounds are filled with motifs related to "time," and the symmetrical composition indicates perfection. The use of motifs reminiscent of the Mesopotamian civilization in some of the patterns is a clue to his roots.
#SOULCALIBUR
Prototype enemy encounter art of cat-donkey mom "Lamashtu" and local snake wrangler "Pazuzu".
Not entirely spoilers since these two are staples in the Mesopotamian demon diet, so they were going to show up sooner or later. What role they'll play aside on the other hand...
6. #Irkalla is one name for the #Underworld of #Mesopotamian #Mythology. It had 7 gates and was once ruled over by the #dragon, #Kur/#Kurnugia, but was later taken over by the #goddess #Ereshkigal and her husband #Nergal.
#FairyTaleTuesday 7/9
In May 1174 the great atabeg of Aleppo Nur ad-Din died, setting off a chaotic chain of events.
His father Zengi had conquered most of Syria and Mesopotamia, the first real threat to the existence of the Christian Crusader states on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean.
#Otd 1896: 1st x-ray taken in Ireland in De La Salle College in #Waterford city, by Michael Francis O’Reilly/Brother Potamian (discovered by German Wilhelm Röntgen). Born in #Bailieborough Co #Cavan in 1847 in Famine so emigrated. Entered Jesuit Novitiate in Montreal, Canada.🏥
The traditional, modern view is that the Antonine Plague was smallpox, spread among the troops as they headed back from the Parthian War in Mesopotamia in c.165 AD
Lessons from the Antonine Plague 🎧 https://t.co/KIPotnkpMZ
Image Credit: Wellcome Images / CC.
Tapputi Belatekallim. La primera química de la historia. Conocida perfumista del 1200 ac en Mesopotamia