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The Babylonian World - Historia Antigua

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— <strong>Babylonian</strong> seals —<br />

Figure 7.27 Hero fighting lion. Inscribed ‘For his Lord, Marduk-apla-iddina’. Chalcedony. 3.6<br />

× 1.6. Baghdad, Iraq Museum IM 67920. Photograph courtesy of L. al-Gailani Werr (Collon 1987,<br />

no. 369; Collon 2003: 10*–12*, Fig. 1).<br />

Figure 7.28 A god (Ninurta or Marduk?) and mythical beasts. Erratic seven-line dedicatory<br />

inscription to Nabu fitted around the design, with a later two-line dedication naming ‘Eriba-<br />

Marduk, the king’ added in larger, untidy script, perhaps by Merodach-Baladan (his son or grandson),<br />

in whose time the seal must have been cut. Chalcedony. 3.5 × 1.71. Mossène Foroughi collection<br />

(Porada 1993: 578–81, Fig. 46; Collon 2003: 12*–13*, Fig. 2).<br />

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