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Pottery Ossuary from Azor
Chests of this sort were used to contain the bones of individuals in secondary burials. These were burials in which the body had been exposed and allowed to decay before the bones were gathered. At Azor, on the coast of...
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Female Figurine from Carchemish
During the late 3rd millenniumCE, the area of the middle Euphrates developed a distinctive regional culture. Between 1963-1973 CE, an international rescue mission excavated a large number of sites in this region which...
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Bearded Male Figurine from Tabqa-Euphrates Area
During the late 3rd millennium BCE, the area of the middle Euphrates developed a distinctive regional culture. Between 1963-1973 CE, an international rescue mission excavated a large number of sites in...
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Mummy of a Child
Mummy of a child, wrapped in a shroud depicting a boy wearing a tunic, mantle, and slippers, and holding a spring of myrtle. A wreath of rosebuds is worn on the head. The child was around the age of 7 to 10 years at the time of...
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Basalt Relief Sculptures from Tell Halaf
Tell Halaf is situated on the headwaters of the river Habur in modern-day north-eastern Syria. It was excavated between 1911-1921 by a German expedition under the direction of Baron Max von Oppenheim. Large...
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The Latest Dated Cuneiform Tablet in the British Museum
This is the latest datable clay tablet in the British Museum. It gives the monthly positions of the planets in the zodiac signs and the dates of their characteristic phenomena. Dates of solstices...
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Darius I Inscribed Stone Weight
The cuneiform inscription on this polished diorite weight states "I Darius, the great king, the son of Hystaspes, an Achaemenian". This is an abbreviated version of a standard inscription on a series of stone weights...
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Mummy of Cleopatra Daughter of Candace
The outer shroud was painted with a full face figure of the dead girl, flanked by gods and goddesses. A painted pectoral of cartonnage represents the Ba of Cleopatra as a human-headed bird. She was the daughter...
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Statue of Idrimi of Alalakh
The associated cuneiform inscription tell the interesting story of this king. Following a popular revolt, Idrimi was forced to go into exile. Together with his mother's family, he went 1st to Emar (Meskene on the Euphrates...
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Painted Mummy Case of a Boy Named Pemsais
The name of the boy was written in Demotic and appears below the left hand. He wears a short tunic with a cloak wrapped around the waist and draped over the left shoulder from behind. From Akhmim, Egypt. Graeco-Roman...
