Enlil (also known as Ellil and Nunamnir) was the Sumerian god of the air in the Mesopotamian pantheon, but he was more powerful than any other elemental deity and eventually was worshiped as King of the Gods. #History #Mesopotamia #Marduk #Enlil #Enki #Nippur #HistoryFact https://whe.to/ci/1-13054-en/

Shulgi and Ninlil's Barge is a Sumerian poem dated to the reign of Shulgi of Ur (2094 - circa 2046 BCE) celebrating the caulking of the barge of the goddess Ninlil, consort of the sky god Enlil, and the banquet held in the couple's honor by Shulgi, who is then blessed by Ninlil with the promise of a prosperous reign. #History #Sumer #ShulgiOfUr #Mesopotamia #Nippur #Poem #SumerianPoem #HistoryFact https://whe.to/ci/2-2176-en/

The great cities of Mesopotamia ("the land between two rivers") developed prior to the late 4th millennium BCE along two rivers – the Tigris and Euphrates – and were fully established by the Early Dynastic period (circa 2900 to circa 2350/2334 BCE). #History #Uruk #Ur #Nineveh #Mesopotamia #Mari #Eridu #Babylon #Ashur #Akkad #Kish #Lagash #Nippur #Sippar #HistoryFact https://whe.to/ci/2-2900-en/

Mesopotamian education was invented by the Sumerians following the creation of writing circa 3600/3500 BCE. #History #Cuneiform #Education #Nippur #Scribe #HistoryFact https://whe.to/ci/2-2203-en/

Mesopotamian religion was central to the people's lives. #History #Utu-Shamash #Ur #Sumerians #Sumer #Pazuzu #Nisaba #Ninurta #Ninhursag #Nabu #Mesopotamia #Ishtar #Babylon #Anu #Nippur #HistoryFact https://whe.to/ci/1-10151-en/

In ancient Nippur people drew pictures of the demons besetting them in the bottom of clay bowls and wrote the name of the specific demon around the rim with incantations (often in Aramaic) to make it go away. The demons are drawn in a childlike way, to our eyes at least. The bowls are buried upside down under the floors of their houses (to trap the demon?). It occurred to me we do the same thing here in eNowhereland. Except we draw crude selfies and bury ourselves under the bowl.

And now AI demons write the incantations.

#talkingtomyselflettingyoulisten #demons #AI #aramaic #nippur #digitalcaptives

This volume includes 13 papers from the Jena Colloquium on Professor Hilprecht's collection held in honor of the curator M. Krebernik. The topics discussed involve e.g. the #History of the collection and new #cuneiform material from #Nippur. #Orient
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