Ishtar Mugs

Ornaments based on the facade of Nebuchadnezzar’s throne room in Babylon. The design matches the famous Ishtar Gate.

Ornaments based on the facade of Nebuchadnezzar's throne room in Babylon. The design maches the famous Ishtar Gate.

Assyrian Symbols

Assyrian Flag Artwork

comedy icons

An ancient symbol of Babylonian royalty.

The Potnia Theron or Mistress of Animals is a widespread motif in ancient art from the Mediterranean world and the ancient Near East, showing a central human, or human-like, female figure who grasps two animals, one to each side. I recreated this design based on a 7th century BC Greek vase representing Artemis as Mistress of Animals.

Artemis - Diana for the Romans - was the Greek goddess of wild animals, the hunt, vegetation, chastity and childbirth

Resplendent Thunder Goddess Ishtar from the mobile game Fire Emblem Heroes!

Artemis, Greek goddess of the hunt (Diana for the Romans) had Pan gave Artemis two black-and-white dogs, three reddish ones, and one spotted one – these dogs were able to hunt even lions

"libation vase of Gudea"

A Neo-Assyrian princess contemplates her unborn child in the 8th century BCE.

Lamassu Human-headed Winged Bull, The lamassu is a celestial being from ancient Mesopotamian religion bearing a human head, bull's body, sometimes with the horns and the ears of a bull, and wings. It appears frequently in Mesopotamian art.

Inanna is an ancient Mesopotamian goddess associated with love, beauty, sex, war, justice and political power. She was originally worshiped in Sumer and was later worshipped by the Akkadians, Babylonians, and Assyrians under the name Ishtar. She was known as the "Queen of Heaven" and was the patron goddess of the Eanna temple at the city of Uruk.

Inanna - Dumuzi

Akkadian Star

From Sumerian Civilization Lyres

From Sumerian Civilization

Ishtar Gate

Sumerian Lyres

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Hammurabi

The ancient sources give some clues as to who lived in the Mesopotamian marshland and what the landscape looked like in the first millennium. Two terms are used in the written sources to refer to the marshland in southern Babylonia: agammu “marsh, swamp” and appāru “reed marsh, canebrake”. The Sealand was inhabited by Chaldeans and Aramaeans. Šūzubu (Mušēzib-Marduk), the Chaldean leader of Bīt-Dakkūri, is referred to in Sennacherib’s inscriptions as “a Chaldean who lives among the marshes (agammu)” and Bīt-Jakīn is described as the land “which is in the marshes (agammu) and canebrakes (appāru)”. Concerning Bēl-iqīša, the leader of the mighty Aramaean tribe of Gambūlu, Esarhaddon says that his residence “is located twelve leagues distance...

The Standard of Ur

D.NIN.URTA - AN.IM.MIMUŠEN

The lamassu is a celestial being from ancient Mesopotamian religion bearing a human head, bull's body, sometimes with the horns and the ears of a bull, and wings. It appears frequently in Mesopotamian art.

Lamassu Human-headed Winged Bull The lamassu is a celestial being from ancient Mesopotamian religion bearing a human head, bull's body, sometimes with the horns and the ears of a bull, and wings. It appears frequently in Mesopotamian art.

Lamassu Human-headed Winged Bull, The lamassu is a celestial being from ancient Mesopotamian religion bearing a human head, bull's body, sometimes with the horns and the ears of a bull, and wings. It appears frequently in Mesopotamian art.

Assyria

From Sumerian Civilization

UTU

From Sumerian Civilization Lyres

From Sumerian Civilization Lyres

The Assyrian Nation flag, alphabet, Lamassu, Ishtar gate and alaha ashur

Shar-kali-sharri-Akkad Ibni sharrum impression