Chemin faisant

• 2012-09-29

  

  ancientpeoples:

  Cuneiform tablet with bilingual hymn

  4th-1st Century BC

  Seleucid

  Clay

  c.12 cm x c.8 cm

  Tablet records part of a balag, a song of lament accompanied by a stringed instrument.

  Written in both Sumerian and Akkadian. This tablet records a lament by Inanna, a Sumerian fertility goddess, over the destruction of her cities and sanctuaries.

  (Source: The Metropolitan Museum of Art)

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