Ancient Babylonia
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Glasgow Museums has a collection of nine artefacts from the Ancient Babylonian world. These date from 2112 to 1595 BC. This collection includes cult figurines, a clay brick that records the foundation of the temple of the god Enlil by Ur-Nammu, and two clay tablets from the reign of Shu-Sin – a receipt for barley and a record of a ration of provisions. The collection holds a rare silver spouted libation beaker, possibly from Luristan, and a rare copper temple foundation figurine with a cuneiform inscription. A baked clay foundation cone dates to the reign of Libit-Ishtar of Isin. A terracotta head of a horned male deity is also from the Isin-Larsa Period or possibly III Ur, and reflects the popularity of terracotta figurines for use in domestic religion at this time. An object of particular note is the terracotta head of a monumental guardian lion from a temple entrance, which is very similar to two lion heads in the Louvre museum in Paris and may have come from the same temple in southern Mesopotamia. Babylonia was an ancient state in southern Mesopotamia, in what is now Iraq. Its capital was the ancient city of Babylon, and it encompassed the regions of Sumer and Akkad.
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