NMC102H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: The Divine Image, Borsippa, Dilbat
22 Feb 2018
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Sources: oriental institute research archives, neo-assyrian bibliography, abbreviations for assyriology. Religion: deities in writing, in art, the pantheon and its organization. Deities in writing: dingir means god, utu: sun god. Identifying divine symbols: some bear captions identifying divine names, includes sun, spade, scorpion, moon , stone stela with divine symbols, inscriptions to do with grants of land, king meli-shipak: iconography. Sometimes a deity is associated with more than one place: Ishtar for example, affiliated with assyria and babylonia. Worship: you had to be part of the priesthood to be able to go into the temple and even then, only a few were given permission to enter the divine cella, statues were seen in tutorial. Gods and other supernatural beings: deities in anthropomorphic form, deified kings, deified objects: weapons, demons (hybrid creatures with human body): seen in upright position, the bull-man, scorpion-people, monsters: on all fours, not human, sages: the seven sages. Ziggurats: remains of etemenanki, ziggurat of babylon.
