Finally reading Eric Cline's 1177 B.C., which mentions this cool Mycenaean sword found at the Hittite site of Hattusa. The inscription is Akkadian cuneiform:"When the great king Tudhaliya destroyed the land of Assuwa, he offered this sword as an offering to his lord the storm god" #EpigraphyTuesday
Actually kinda terrible, but somehow still fun to watch
For #EpigraphyTuesday, False Door of Hepeti and Her Mother Sahat, a priestess of Hathor (Old Kingdom). On display at the Michael C. Carlos Museum at Emory University, Atlanta, GA. #archaeology
A cool example from Codex Sinaiticus of the nomina sacra, a type of abbreviation for divine names. In Mark 1:1, Jesus Christ (Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦ) is shortened to ΙΥ ΧΥ. Also note the insertion of ΥΥ ΘΥ (smaller ns above the start of the next sentence), short for υἱοῦ θεοῦ, or ‘Son of God’.
The study of ancient documents is fascinating. These two images each show Genesis 1:1. The first one is from the Dead Sea Scrolls (most of first 2 words (a, b) are missing, ~1st Century BCE), the second is Koine Greek, from the 4th Century CE Codex Vaticanus. #biblicalstudies #archaeology
Partially fragmented clay tablet. Cuneiform writing covers the top half, whilst the bottom depicts a kind of map. In the centre is a circle representing Babylon on a 'great river' (the Euphrates), surrounded by more circles labelled with places known to the Babylonians. This is surrounded by two circles labelled as the ‘bitter river’. This is likely an ocean, but also the cosmic border between familiar places and exotic regions. Outside the ocean lie several triangles representing legendary locations and beings including ruined cities and Sargon (king of Akkad, c. 2334‒2279 BCE) who established an empire extending far beyond Babylonia.
Is this the oldest known map of the world? 🏺
From an ancient Babylonian city in modern Iraq, it depicts the world as they perceived it during the 6th century BC, with Babylon in the centre surrounded by both known and legendary locations 1/2
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Probably seen many times for #EpigraphyTuesday, The second register of the Black Obelisk of Shalmaneser, which possibly depicts "Jehu son of Omri", a king of Israel, bowing before Shalmaneser III. #archaeology
I think this is the kind of resource well-known among established scholars, but definitely is of wider interest to anyone with a curiosity about the Dead Sea Scrolls to those new to learning biblical Hebrew. #archaeology #ancienthistory #biblicalstudies
www.deadseascrolls.org.il/home
AI being put a good use. Amazing potential here.
#archaeology #cuneiform
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