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A look at the extent of destruction at the ancient city of Mari (modern Tell al-Hariri), well-known for its palace and archives of the second millennium BCE, but founded at least a thousand years before that.

h/t @cwjones89 theguardian.com/science/2018/a…
The second millennium palace at Mari had hundreds of rooms, painted frescoes, “archives” of cuneiform texts including diplomatic correspondence, and 2-metre-thick mud brick walls.

Patterns of destruction there suggest the use of explosives theguardian.com/science/2018/a…
A site of enormous significance to Syria’s ancient history and heritage, the palace at Mari was decorated with many statues that have survived from antiquity

One shows a goddess holding a vase with a channel for water, depicted on a Syrian bank note academia.edu/37360849/Knott…
Cuneiform tablets excavated from Mari open up a window onto administration, diplomacy, the military, and the personal lives of men and women—accounts of family, voyages, love, and more.

“There was a sign when it rained: so remember me; do not forget me.” cdli.ucla.edu/search/archiva…
Tragic levels of destruction at Mari by Daesh, and a reminder of yet another cost of conflict borne locally.

The destruction of cultural heritage is devastating not as an abstract loss for humanity, but as a very concrete loss for the people who live it theguardian.com/science/2018/a…
One small example of the LOCAL importance of cultural heritage at Mari is clear in this piece from last year
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Fragment of a clay tablet from the Library of Ashurbanipal with a single Aramaic letter

Aramaic likely took over as the main spoken language from ~1000 BCE onward, but Akkadian continued to be used in scholarly, admininstrative, and other written contexts cdli.ucla.edu/P336029
Cuneiform tablets from the first millennium BCE sometimes include text in the Aramaic language, either inscribed in Aramaic characters or rendered in cuneiform script.

A receipt for silver from the time of Darius I has Babylonian and Aramaic writing britishmuseum.org/research/colle…
A fragment of a contract from the Neo-Assyrian period, perhaps from the time of King Ashurbanipal, is written in cuneiform with Aramaic text on one edge (right side of photo).

Such notes sometimes summarised the contents, almost like the spine of a book britishmuseum.org/research/colle…
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“Ishtar of joy is clothed in charm; she is adorned with seductiveness, cosmetics, and appeal. She is sweet-lipped, her mouth is life; laughter blooms on her features.”

An Old Babylonian hymn to the goddess Ishtar dedicated by the king Ammi-ditana #Galentines #Valentines
A 4,000-year-old hymn to the goddess Ishtar praises her aspects as the goddess of love and her authority in the Babylonian pantheon.

“She alone controls mutual love, obedience, passion, good will...
Who can equal her greatness?
Strong, august, brilliant are her divine powers”
In Mesopotamia, the goddess Ishtar was volatile and complex. She enjoyed making love as much as she did inciting battle

King Ashurbanipal of ancient Assyria claimed her support in his royal inscriptions: “With the help of Ashur and Ishtar, I killed them. Their heads, I cut off.”
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The audience had some great questions about medicine and women’s health in ancient Mesopotamia after yesterday’s chat with @digi_hammurabi

A short thread to revisit some of them and provide some (hopefully) useful links!
To read samples of primary source material for the study of medicine in ancient Assyria and Babylonia in translation, this google books preview of JoAnn Scurlock’s “Sourcebook for Ancient Mesopotamian Medicine” allows for some #openaccess browsing books.google.co.uk/books/about/So…
While the two main categories of medical texts are diagnostic and therapeutic, there is a third category called “medical commentaries”, which are (usually later) commentaries on those diagnostic and therapeutic texts.

You can browse some of those here: ccp.yale.edu
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