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88 Sumerian Cuneiform Images and Stock Photos

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Picture taken on May 1 shows a cuneiform inscription at the excavation site of the ancient Sumerian city of Girsu, now known as Tello, in Iraq's...

IRAQ-ARCHAEOLOGY

Cuneiform inscription is seen during excavation at the ancient Sumerian city of Girsu, now known as Tello, in Iraq's al-Shatrah district of the...

IRAQ-ARCHAEOLOGY

Cuneiform tablet depicting beer allocation. 2351-2342 BC. From Girsu. Uruinimgina King. British Museum. London.

Cuneiform tablet depicting beer allocation.

ancient tablet containing the chaldean account of the deluge or great flood - sumerian cuneiform stock illustrations

Ancient tablet containing the Chaldean account of the deluge or great flood

Administrative account of barley distribution with cylinder seal impression of a male figure, hunting dogs, and boars, Jemdet Nasr, ca 3100–2900 BC,...

Cuneiform tablet: administrative account of barley distribution with cylinder seal impression of a male figure, hunting dogs, and boars, Jemdet Nasr, ca 3100–2900 BC, Mesopotamia, probably from Uruk (modern Warka), Sumerian, Clay, 217 x 236 x 163 in (55

Prism, Isin-Larsa period. King List prism; Sumerian, circa 2004BC-circa 1595 BC. Written in cuneiform script, runs in two columns on each of the four...

Sumerian King List Prism

Sumerian King List Prism, Isin-Larsa period, circa 2004BC-circa 1595 BC. Sumerian, written in cuneiform script, runs in two columns on each of the...

Sumerian King List Prism

Sumerian King List Prism, Isin-Larsa period, circa 2004BC-circa 1595 BC. Sumerian, written in cuneiform script, runs in two columns on each of the...

Sumerian King List Prism

The meanings of most Sumerian pictographs were fairly obvious. Sometimes they were by association - a leg meant "stand" or "walk", a bowl "food". The...

Development of the Cuneiform script.

Picture taken on May 1 shows a cuneiform inscription at the excavation site of the ancient Sumerian city of Girsu, now known as Tello, in Iraq's...

IRAQ-ARCHAEOLOGY

Sumerian King List Prism, Isin-Larsa period, circa 2004BC-circa 1595 BC. Sumerian, written in cuneiform script, runs in two columns on each of the...

Sumerian King List Prism

the sun-god shamash in his shrine, tablet of shamash is a stone tablet recovered from the ancient babylonian city of sippar in southern iraq in 1881 - sumerian cuneiform stock illustrations

The Sun-god Shamash in his Shrine, Tablet of Shamash is a stone tablet recovered from the ancient Babylonian city of Sippar in southern Iraq in 1881

Hollow clay cylinder inscribed in cuneiform, describing Sin iddinams dredging of the Tigris on behalf of various deities, Translation of the text on...

Hollow clay cylinder inscribed in cuneiform, describing Sin iddinams dredging of the Tigris on behalf of various deities

cuneiform writing in persepolis archeological site, iran - sumerian cuneiform stock pictures, royalty-free photos & images

Cuneiform writing in Persepolis archeological site, Iran

ormazd and ahriman, the sons of the persian god of time, ring of lordship - sumerian cuneiform stock illustrations

Ormazd and Ahriman, the sons of the Persian god of time, ring of lordship

ancient rock letter - sumerian cuneiform stock pictures, royalty-free photos & images

Ancient Rock Letter

Sumerian civilization, 3rd millennium b.C. Administrative clay tablet in cuneiform script. Count of goats and rams, 2360 b.C. From Tell Telloh,...

Administrative clay tablet in cuneiform script with count of goats and rams, from Tell Telloh (ancient Ngirsu), Iraq

Mesopotamia. Commemorative stone stela. Babylonian, about 900-800 BC. Iraq. British Museum, London, England, United Kingdom.

Commemorative stone stela.

Mesopotamia. Early writing. Pictographs drawn. Clay tablet. Administrative text. British Museum, London, England, United Kingdom.

Early writing. Pictographs drawn. Mesopotamia. Record of food supplies. From Iraq. Late Prehistoric period. About 3000BC. Early administrative text....

Mesopotamia. Record of food supplies.

Ur III clay administrative tablet, impressed with the scribes seal, which depicts a goddess leading a worshipper and the text Ur Gigir, scribe, son...

Ur III clay administrative tablet, impressed with the scribes seal, which depicts a goddess leading a worshipper and the text Ur Gigir, scribe, son of Barran

Auguste Rodin's Walking Man, On A Column at the Louvre Abu Dhabi in the afternoon light, against Jenny Holzer's marble relief of cuneiform text, one...

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Cuneiform tablet, which originally served as an administrative text, documenting the transfer of goods, from the Ur III Period, 2200-2100 BCE,...

Ur Iii Cuneiform Tablet

Envelope and letter in cuneiform writing, The envelope has marks of the seal used by the sender. The cuneiform signs are written from left to right...

Envelope and letter in cuneiform writing

Letter in cuneiform writing, The cuneiform signs are written from left to right and are pressed into the soft clay tablet with the slanded edge of a...

Letter in cuneiform writing

Perforated relief of King Ur-Nanshe, king of Lagash. Early Dynastic period III, c. 2550-2500 BC. Reliefs commemorating religious actions of the king...

Votive relief of Ur-Nanshe, king of Lagash. Early Dynastic period III, c. 2550-2500 BC. Tello, Iraq.

illustration of using reed pen to write sumerian cuneiform script on clay tablet - sumerian cuneiform stock illustrations

Illustration of using reed pen to write Sumerian cuneiform script on clay tablet

Mesopotamian clay cone bearing cuneiform inscriptions is displayed during a handover ceremony of a trove of looted Iraqi antiquities returned by the...

IRAQ-US-CULTURE-ANTIQUITY-MUSEUM

Cuneiform tablet recording barley rations, 1st Dynasty of Lagash, about 2350-2200 BC, from Tello , southern Iraq. This cuneiform tablet records in...

Cuneiform tablet barley rations, 1st Dynasty of Lagash, about 2350-2200 BC.

Tablet with cuneiform script predicting the birth of Sargon, terracotta. Sumerian-Akkadian civilisation, First Babylonian Dynasty. Paris, Musée Du...

Tablet with cuneiform script...

Ur III clay administrative tablet, impressed with the scribes seal, which depicts a goddess leading a worshipper and the text Ur Gigir, scribe, son...

Ur III clay administrative tablet, impressed with the scribes seal, which depicts a goddess leading a worshipper and the text Ur Gigir, scribe, son of Barran

Sumerian civilization, 3rd millenium b.C. Tablet with cuneiform writing. From Uruk, 3200 b.C.

Tablet with cuneiform (wedge shaped) writing, from ancient Uruk, Iraq

illustration of cuneiform script on clay tablet - sumerian cuneiform stock illustrations

Illustration of cuneiform script on clay tablet

Tablet with bilingual inscription in Sumerian and Akkadian erected by King Hammurapi of Babylon from Ur, from the British Museum's collection.

Tablet with bilingual inscription erected by King Hammurabi.

Sumerian civilization, 3rd millennium b.C. Administrative neo-Sumerian clay tablet with cuneiform inscription.

Administrative neo-Sumerian clay tablet with cuneiform inscription, Sumerian civilization

Mesopotamia. Early Dynastic Period III. Votive pebble with inscription. Eanmtum I King. 2424-2405 BC. From Girsu. British Museum, London, England,...

Mesopotamia. Early Dynastic Period III.

Sumerian civilization, 3rd millennium b.C. Administrative clay tablet in cuneiform script . Count of donkeys and carts, 2360 b.C. From Tell Telloh,...

Administrative clay tablet in cuneiform script with count of donkeys and carts, from Tell Telloh (ancient Ngirsu), Iraq

Sumerian civilization, 3rd millennium b.C. Cylinder seal and impression of a governor of Nippur.

Cylinder seal and impression of a governor of Nippur, Sumerian civilization

Old Babylonian balag to the mother goddess Aruru, Old Babylonian, ca. 19th-16th century B.C., Mesopotamia, Babylonian, Clay, 3 7/8 x 1 7/8 x 1 1/8...

Cuneiform tablet: Old Babylonian balag to the mother goddess Aruru.

Half-buried Cuneiform tablet at a heavily looted Sumerian site, Talil Al Obeit.

IRQ: Looting of Babylon

Mesopotamia. Terracotta vase. Probably from Umma. Iraq. Early Dynastic Period. 2330 BC. Document referring to a conflict between the city-states of...

Mesopotamia. Terracotta vase.

Selling of a field and a house. Shuruppak, pre-cuneiform script. | Located in: Musee du Louvre.

Sumerian contract written in pre-cuneiform script

Votive nail-pointed statue and tablet with cuneiform writing , Tello, Iraq. Sumerian civilisation 3rd millennium BC. Istanbul, Arkeoloji Muzerleri

Votive nail-pointed statue and tablet...

a beautifully preserved cunieform inscription in the hadish palace. - sumerian cuneiform stock pictures, royalty-free photos & images

A beautifully preserved cunieform inscription in the Hadish Palace.

Hollow clay cylinder inscribed in cuneiform, describing Sin iddinams dredging of the Tigris on behalf of various deities, Translation of the text on...

Hollow clay cylinder inscribed in cuneiform, describing Sin iddinams dredging of the Tigris on behalf of various deities

ormazd and ahriman, the sons of the persian god of time, ring of lordship - sumerian cuneiform stock illustrations

Ormazd and Ahriman, the sons of the Persian god of time, ring of lordship

Mud brick bearing a cuneiform inscription is seen during excavation at the ancient Sumerian city of Girsu, now known as Tello, in Iraq's al-Shatrah...

IRAQ-ARCHAEOLOGY

The Gilgamesh Tablet , a 3,500-year-old Mesopotamian cuneiform clay tablet that was believed to be looted from Iraq around 1991 and illegally...

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Sumerian dedicatory inscription from Ekur, the temple of the god Enlil, Kassite, ca. 16th-15th century B.C., Mesopotamia, probably from Nippur,...

Cuneiform tablet: Sumerian dedicatory inscription from Ekur, the temple of the god Enlil, Kassite.

Mid nineteenth century transcription of an unknown Cuneiform script. Cuneiform is one of the earliest systems of writing, was invented by the...

Mid nineteenth century transcription of an unknown Cuneiform.

Policemen from the antiquities department, at a heavily looted Sumerian site, Talil Al Obeit. Cuneiform tablets, like the one in the foreground, are...

IRQ: Looting of Babylon

Policemen from the antiquities department, at a heavily looted Sumerian site, Talil Al Obeit. Cuneiform tablets, like the one in the foreground, are...

IRQ: Looting of Babylon

Sumer. Mesopotamia. Near East. Early Dynastic Period. Clay nail of Enanatum I with a building inscription devoted to the construction of the temple...

Clay nail of Enanatum I with inscription construction of temple of Inanna.

Mesopotamia. Neo-Sumerian. Ruler Gudea of state of Lagash. Diorita statue. From Girsu . Iraq. 2120 BC. Museum of Louvre. Paris. France.

Neo-Sumerian. Statue of Gudea. Girsu (modern Telloh). Iraq. 2120 BC. Louvre.

Mesopotamia. Neo-Sumerian. Ruler Gudea of state of Lagash. Diorita statue. From Girsu . Iraq. 2120 BC. Cuneiform inscription. Detail. Museum of...

Neo-Sumerian. Statue of Gudea. Girsu, Iraq. 2120 BC. Cuneiform inscription. Louvre.

Black limestone kudurru of King Marduk sapik zari . The inscription is in cuneiform writing. 59 x 25 cm. Baghdad museum, Iraq

Mesopotamia: kudurru of King Marduk sapik zari

Gold Sumerian bowl from Ur, southern Iraq, About 2600-2400 BC. Comes from the Queen's Grave in the Royal Cemetery at Ur. A cuneiform inscription on a...

Gold Sumerian bowl.

The chamber of genius, 1812 by Thomas Rowlandson, 1756-1827, artist, etching, hand-coloured. British cartoon shows an artist wearing nightshirt and...

The chamber of genius.

Cuneiform tablet, which originally served as an administrative text, documenting the transfer of goods, from the Ur III Period, 2200-2100 BCE,...

Ur Iii Cuneiform Tablet

Cuneiform tablet, which originally served as an administrative text, documenting the transfer of goods, from the Ur III Period, 2200-2100 BCE,...

Ur Iii Cuneiform Tablet