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Mesopotamian civilizations
Societies, cities and religious traditions in Mesopotamia.
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Aqqi in Sargon’s birth story
Aqqi is the irrigator who finds the child in the river and adopts him in Sargon of Akkad’s birth story
A clay tablet from Nineveh preserving Sargon’s birth legend, in which Aqqi is the irrigator who adopts the child. A seventh-century BCE Assyrian copy, British Museum K.3401. Photograph by Marie-Lan Nguyen, 2012; the narrative is later than the king’s lifetime
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Sargon II
Sargon II was an Assyrian king of the late eighth century BCE; ORACC dates his reign about 721–705 BCE
Sargon II in a relief from Dur-Sharrukin, modern Khorsabad in Iraq, dated by the Louvre to his reign, 721–705 BCE. This source crop shows the king in the scene catalogued as AO 19873 and AO 19874
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Ashurbanipal
Ashurbanipal was an Assyrian king of the seventh century BCE, reigning about 668–631 BCE
Ashurbanipal stabs a lion in a relief from the North Palace at Nineveh, around 645–635 BCE, now in the British Museum. Attendants accompany the king in this royal hunting scene. Photograph taken on 9 March 2020
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Moses
Central figure in Exodus, Torah traditions and the Qur’an; childhood accounts differ in detail.
K.3401 from Nineveh, a Neo-Assyrian witness to Sargon’s birth legend, British Museum. A copy later than the king, not Moses’ basket or an image of the infant. © Marie-Lan Nguyen / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY 2.5
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Hammurabi
King of Babylon in Mesopotamia, reigning around 1792–1750 BCE. A celebrated legal text preserved on a stele and cuneiform copies bears his name.
A limestone votive monument from Sippar, showing Hammurabi with his left arm raised. The British Museum dates it to his reign, 1792–1750 BCE; object 22454. Photograph by Marie-Lan Nguyen, 2012
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