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Related content for the gallery "Room 55: Mesopotamia 1500-539 BC"
Related Childrens tour
Games
Related galleries
Room 6: Assyrian sculpture
Room 7-8: Assyria: Nimrud
Room 9: Assyria: Nineveh
Room 10a: Assyria: Lion hunts
Room 10b: Assyria: Siege of Lachish
Room 10c: Assyria: Khorsabad
Room 56: Mesopotamia 6000-1500 BC
Room 89: Assyrian Life
Related highlight objects
Alabaster jar
Amulet with a figure of Lamashtu
Black serpentinite seal (modern impression)
Boundary stone (kudurru)
Boundary stone (kudurru)
Boundary stone (kudurru)
Boundary stone (kudurru)
Boundary stone (kudurru)
Brick of Nebuchadnezzar II
Bronze door-slab
Bronze head of Pazuzu
Bronze sword
Carnelian cylinder seal of Mushezib-Ninurta
Carnelian stamp seal
Chalcedony cylinder seal
Chalcedony cylinder seal
Chalcedony stamp seal
Clay mask of the demon Huwawa
Commemorative stone stela
Cuneiform tablet telling the Epic of Creation
Cuneiform tablet telling the legend of Etana
Cuneiform tablet telling the legend of Ishtar's descent to the Underworld
Cuneiform tablet with observations of Venus
Cuneiform tablet with omens
Cuneiform tablet with part of the Babylonian Chronicle (616-609 BC)
Cuneiform tablet with part of the Nabonidus Chronicle (556-530s BC)
Cylinder of Nabonidus
Cylinder of Nebuchadnezzar II
Faience mask
Fluted glass bottle
Garnet cylinder seal showing Ishtar
Glass jar
Glazed terracotta tile
Green chalcedony cylinder seal
Gypsum tile
Hematite seal
Letter from Burnaburiash to Amenhotep IV
Letter from Tushratta to Amenhotep III
Light green glass bowl
Limestone statue of a woman
Pink chalcedony cylinder seal
Polychrome glazed jars
Pottery 'Palace Ware' jar
Silver beaker-1
Stela of Ashurbanipal
Stela of Ashurbanipal
Stone lion's head
Stone prism of Esarhaddon
Stone statue of a monkey
Stone tablet of Nabu-apla-iddina
Tablet of Shamash
Terracotta figure of an animal
The Dying Lion, a stone panel from the North Palace of Ashurbanipal
The Flood Tablet, relating part of the Epic of Gilgamesh
The Sargon Vase
The Taylor Prism
Related themes
Animals
Writing
Related tours
A kind of magic
Agatha Christie and archaeology
The art of glass
Related world cultures
Amorites
Assyrians
Babylonians
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