Daily Life


Work, Leisure, Clothing and Textiles, Politics and Portraits, Furniture, Houshold, Funerals, Death, Murder, Family.



7 subcategories
Agriculture

AGRICULTURE

Clothing and Textiles

CLOTHING AND TEXTILES

Furniture

FURNITURE

Illness and Diseases

ILLNESS AND DISEASES

Industry

INDUSTRY

Leisure

LEISURE

Work

WORK

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Tablet with inscription, accounts from agricultural    
activities. Seal of Sa-nin-ma, 7th year of Qimul-sin.  
Ur III. From Umma.                                     
Terracotta, 13,3 x 8,9 x 2 cm                          
AO 6043
#08021551

Tablet with inscription, accounts from agricultural activities. Seal of Sa-n...

Cylinder seal and imprint,Kassite period,16th-12th BCE 
Sitting deity.                                         
Agate, H: 3,5 cm                                       
AO 22329
#08021566

Cylinder seal and imprint,Kassite period,16th-12th BCE Sitting deity....

Cylinder seal and imprint, period of the Assyrian      
merchant settlements in Cappadocia, 19th-18th BCE.     
Two deities, lords of lightning, and three worshippers 
before a great deity on  throne.                       
Haematite, H: 2,6 cm                AO 47765
#08021568

Cylinder seal and imprint, period of the Assyrian merchant settlements in...

Torque with lions'heads, gold. From a princely tomb    
in Susa, Achaemenid period, 4th BCE.                   
For detail of the lions' heads see 08-02-16/2          
Sb 2760
#080216 1

Torque with lions'heads, gold. From a princely tomb in Susa, Achaemenid peri...

Torque with lions'heads, gold. From a princely tomb    
in Susa, Achaemenid period, 4th BCE.                   
Detail of the lions' heads. For entire torque          
see 08-02-16/1              Sb 2760
#080216 2

Torque with lions'heads, gold. From a princely tomb in Susa, Achaemenid peri...

Bracelets, gold, with lions' heads, incrustations      
of lapis lazuli and turquoises. From a princely        
tomb in Susa, 4th BCE, Achaemenid period.              
For details of the heads see 08-02-16/4                
Sb 2761 and Sb 2762
#080216 3

Bracelets, gold, with lions' heads, incrustations of lapis lazuli and turq...

Bracelet, gold, with lions' heads, incrustations       
of lapis lazuli and turquoises. From a princely        
tomb in Susa, 4th BCE, Achaemenid period.              
Detail: lions' heads of Sb 2761.                       
For total of bracelets see 08-02-16/3
#080216 4

Bracelet, gold, with lions' heads, incrustations of lapis lazuli and turq...

Island of Arvad (today Tyre), top center, on the       
Lebanese coast. Cedar wood transport for the building  
of a palace. Bas-relief from the Palace of King Sargon 
in Khorsabad, Mesopotamia (Iraq). Right panel, for con-
tinuation see 08-02-16/19,20 Gypseous alabaster.
#08021618

Island of Arvad (today Tyre), top center, on the Lebanese coast. Cedar wo...

Island of Arvad (today Tyre), top right, on the        
Lebanese coast. Cedar wood transport for the building  
of a palace. Bas-relief from the Palace of King Sargon 
in Khorsbad, Mesopotamia (Iraq). Center panel, for     
continuation see 08-02-16/18,20 Gypseous alabaster.
#08021619

Island of Arvad (today Tyre), top right, on the Lebanese coast. Cedar wo...

Transport of cedar wood for the construction of a      
palace. Bas-relief from the Palace of King Sargon II   
at Khorsabad, Mesopotamia (Iraq). For continuation     
see 08-02-16/18,19.                                    
AO 19989
#08021620

Transport of cedar wood for the construction of a palace. Bas-relief from...

Worshipper (orant), side view.                         
Copper. Period of the Archaic Dynasties, 2660 BCE      
AO 19523
#08021623

Worshipper (orant), side view. Copper. Period of the Ar...

Worshipper (orant), front view.                        
Copper. Period of the Archaic Dynasties, 2660 BCE      
AO 19523
#08021624

Worshipper (orant), front view. Copper. Period of the Ar...