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City Plan Incised on Clay Tablet
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City plan incised on clay tablet, Babylonia. The command in Ezekiel 4:1 to “incise Jerusalem” on a brick may have meant to incise a map of it, like this map of the Babylonian city Nippur (near where…

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Nippur, Babylonia (Al Qādisīyah, Iraq)

Date:

Kassite Period (Babylonia), 16th–12th Century BCE

Subjects:

Cities, Archaeology
Tablet with etching of lines and squares, cracked in half.
Esarhaddon’s Prism Nineveh A
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I mobilized the kings of Hatti and “Beyond-the-River”: Baal, king of Tyre; Manasseh, king of Judah; Kaus-gabri, king of Edom; Mutsuri, king of Moab; Tsilli-Bel, king of Gaza; Mitinti, king of Ashkelon…

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Nineveh, Assyria (Mosul, Iraq)

Date:

673–672 BCE

Subjects:

Archaeology, War, Monarchy, Cities, Exile, Inscriptions

Categories:

Inscriptions
Palace Façade in Assyrian Relief
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Palace façade in Assyrian relief, Khorsabad. This illustration is based on an Assyrian relief from the palace of Sargon II (reigned 722–705 BCE), Khorsabad. The relief shows pillars topped by volute…

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Dur-Sharrukin, Assyria (Khorsabad, Iraq)

Date:

Iron Age II, 8th Century BCE

Subjects:

Archaeology, Cities, Monarchy, Architecture

Categories:

Architecture
Line drawing of columned facade.