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Apkallu Bucket with Special Incantation
Alabaster bas-relief detail showing an Apkallu holding a bucket-like object. Neo-Assyrian Period, 865-860 BCE. Detail of Panel 6, Room G,...
Ryan Moorhen
Jul 29, 20181 min read
Apkallu Toolkit - Flowering Branch
Alabaster bas-relief detail showing an Apkallu holding a flowering branch. Neo-Assyrian Period, 865-860 BCE. Detail of Panel 2, Room Z,...
Ryan Moorhen
Jul 29, 20181 min read
The Apkallu Toolkit - Bucket with Pollen
Alabaster bas-relief detail showing an Apkallu holding a bucket-like object. Neo-Assyrian Period, 865-860 BCE. Detail of Panel 2, Room G,...
Ryan Moorhen
Jul 29, 20181 min read
Apkallu Bucket - 'Not Man-bag'
Alabaster bas-relief detail showing an Apkallu holding a bucket-like object. Neo-Assyrian Period, 865-860 BCE. Detail of Panel 23, Room...
Ryan Moorhen
Jul 29, 20181 min read
Protective Spirit or Apkallu - Eagle head birdmen
Alabaster bas-relief detail showing the head of an Apkallu or protective spirit. Neo-Assyrian Period, 865-860 BCE. Detail of Panel D1,...
Ryan Moorhen
Jul 29, 20181 min read
Bird-headed Apkallu for the House ?
In order to protect the household, these protective figures (apkallu or sage) would be buried beneath the floor in groups of seven. From...
Ryan Moorhen
Jul 29, 20181 min read
Apkallu wearing a fish cloak Possibly Giant Carp
This protective spirit (Apkallu or Abkallu) guarded the entrance to the temple of Ninurta at Nimrud. A fish's head can be seen on...
Ryan Moorhen
Jul 29, 20181 min read
The Apkallu - Human or Divine?
“Our assumption is therefore that there existed two versions of the Adapa Myth in the Nineveh archives. Since the Nineveh fragments C and...
Ryan Moorhen
Jul 29, 20184 min read
Etiological Myth of the “Seven Sages”
“The bilingual text LKA No. 76 has been characterized by Ebeling, in the catalog LKA p. x, as “Zweisprachiger Text von den ‘sieben Söhnen...
Ryan Moorhen
Jul 29, 20183 min read
Absent Literature Regarding the Apkallu?
This winged umu-apkallū raises his right arm in the greeting gesture, with the banduddu water bucket in his left hand. The headdress is...
Ryan Moorhen
Jul 29, 20184 min read
Tyrian Purple
The silk shroud of Charlemagne made with gold and Tyrian purple. The design shows a quadriga (four-horse chariot). 9th century CE. (Musée...
Ryan Moorhen
Jul 29, 20181 min read
Dido
A silver tetradrachm from Carthage. The female head has been identified by some historians as Dido (Elissa), the legendary founder of the...
Ryan Moorhen
Jul 29, 20181 min read
Tyre
Roman Agora (believed to be) at Al Mina excavation area.
Ryan Moorhen
Jul 29, 20181 min read
Phoenician Government
The sarcophagus of Eshmunazar II, king of the Phoenician city of Sidon in the 5th century BCE. (Louvre, Paris)
Ryan Moorhen
Jul 29, 20181 min read
Sidon
The Alexander Sarcophagus is a late 4th century BCE stone sarcophagus adorned with bas-relief carvings of Alexander the Great. The...
Ryan Moorhen
Jul 29, 20181 min read
Phoenician Religion
A gilded bronze statue of the Phoenician god Reshef. From Byblos. (National Museum of Beirut)
Ryan Moorhen
Jul 29, 20181 min read
Phoenician Art
This ivory plaque is part of the so-called "Nimrud Ivories." The sphinx wears the typical Egyptian Pharaohs' double crown and an apron...
Ryan Moorhen
Jul 29, 20181 min read
The Phoenician Alphabet & Language
Phoenician is a Canaanite language closely related to Hebrew. Very little is known about the Canaanite language, except what can be...
Ryan Moorhen
Jul 29, 20182 min read
Phoenician Architecture
The Temple of the Obelisks in Byblos was an ancient Phoenician temple built in the Late Bronze Age (1600-1200 BCE).
Ryan Moorhen
Jul 29, 20181 min read
Trade in the Phoenician World
The Phoenicians, based on a narrow coastal strip of the Levant, put their excellent seafaring skills to good use and created a network of...
Ryan Moorhen
Jul 29, 20187 min read
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