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Sacred marriage rite between the goddess of fecundity and King Iddin Dagan of the Isin Dynasty. Sumerian terracotta tablet (18th BCE) 12.2 x 6.4 x 3.2 cm AO 6020
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Sacred marriage rite between the goddess of fecundity and King Iddin...

Sacred marriage rite between the goddess of fecundity and King Iddin Dagan of the Isin Dynasty. Sumerian terracotta tablet (18th BCE) 12.2 x 6.4 x 3.2 cm AO 6020
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Sacred marriage rite between the goddess of fecundity and King Iddin...

Codex Hammurabi (1790 BCE), the first set of laws ever put into writing. From the original 292 laws, only paragraphs 147-179 were generally used in law courts. Sumerian terracotta tablet 14.5 x 10 x 13.3 cm
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Codex Hammurabi (1790 BCE), the first set of laws ever put into writi...

Treaty concluded after the battle of Kadesh between Pharaoh Ramses II and the Hittite King Muvatallish. Battle of Kadesh 1282 BCE, treaty probably 1272 BCE. Fragment of a terracotta tablet in Akkadian language, the diplomatic language of the 13th BCE.
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Treaty concluded after the battle of Kadesh between Pharaoh Ramses II and th...

Astrologicl calendar from Uruk, Mesopotamia. Terracotta tablet
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Astrologicl calendar from Uruk, Mesopotamia....

Part of a Hebrew alphabet tablet with ten letters, Shin to R, found near Hebron, Israel. Stone, Early Iron Age II 3 x 1.7 x 4.2 cm - Inv. H 815
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Part of a Hebrew alphabet tablet with ten letters, Shin t...

Brown jasper seal with Hebrew inscription: Lidnihu son of Nadnihu. Found near Jerusalem. (800-700 BCE) Iron Age I 1.8 x 1.2 x 2.1 cm Inv. R.E.H. 105
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Brown jasper seal with Hebrew inscription: Lidnihu son of Nadnihu....

Ostracon (potsherd) with Hebrew inscription: Your son Yehukal ... From Arad, Israel.
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Ostracon (potsherd) with Hebrew inscription: Your son Ye...

Letter from the commander of the fortress of Lachish, announcing the fall to Syrian troops of Aseka, another outpost on the road to Jerusalem. A sentence reads: "I do not see the lights of Aseka anymore ..." Clay sherd covered with reed-pen and carbon ink writing.
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Letter from the commander of the fortress of Lachish, announcing the fall to...

Babylonian tablet with inscription. Terracotta (605-562 BCE) Late Iron Age Inv. H 1814
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Babylonian tablet with inscription. Terracotta (605-562 BCE)...

Fragmented tablet with Aramaic inscription from the 34th year of the reign of Nabuchodonosor II, 566 BCE. Terracotta 5 x 7 x 2.4 cm AO 21 063
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Fragmented tablet with Aramaic inscription from the 34th year of the reign o...

Seal of Nabuchodonosor I (reigned 1128-1106 BCE) bought in Jerusalem. Clay 9.5 x 8.2 cm Inv. H 1704
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Seal of Nabuchodonosor I (reigned 1128-1106 BCE) bought in Jerusalem....