RELG 201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Zagros Mountains, Tigris, Lamassu

• School: McGill University
• Department: Religious Studies
• Course: RELG 201
• Professor: Eric Bellavance

Document Summary

Archaeological remains are less spectacular and attractive: building material is why. 10 thousand objects from the baghdad museum (bm) are missing: some of the object were hidden but many are still missing. Many sites were getting excavated, but some were destroyed. Zabalam: today it"s al(cid:373)ost totally destroyed, when you do archaeological excavation, you have to come up with chronological order to do this but. Umma: all we know is that it was a great city, but people went in and would dig themselves and try and find goods to sell a(cid:374)d (cid:271)e(cid:272)ause of the(cid:373) it"s i(cid:373)possi(cid:271)le to k(cid:374)ow or excavate properly. King assurnazirpal ii 9th: assyrian palace was destroyed. Cylinder seal: the sun-god shamash coming out of the mountains. We k(cid:374)ow it"s the su(cid:374) god (cid:271)e(cid:272)ause it has su(cid:374) rays arou(cid:374)d it a(cid:374)d the o(cid:374)es around him are minor gods. Doors on both sides of the mountains and when the sun would come out they would open doors: enlil.