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History Greeting Card featuring the photograph Gula Incantation, Medical Cuneiform by Metropolitan Museum of Art

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Gula Incantation, Medical Cuneiform Greeting Card

Metropolitan Museum of Art

by Metropolitan Museum of Art

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Our greeting cards are 5" x 7" in size and are produced on digital offset printers using 100 lb. paper stock. Each card is coated with a UV protectant on the outside surface which produces a semi-gloss finish. The inside of each card has a matte white finish and can be customized with your own message up to 500 characters in length. Each card comes with a white envelope for mailing or gift giving.

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Cuneiform tablet. Gula incantation. Neo-Babylonian or Achaemenid, ca. mid- to late 1st millennium B.C. Probably from Sippar (modern Tell Abu Habba)... more

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Cuneiform tablet. Gula incantation. Neo-Babylonian or Achaemenid, ca. mid- to late 1st millennium B.C. Probably from Sippar (modern Tell Abu Habba) in Mesopotamia. Proto-cuneiform is the name given to the earliest form of writing -- pictograms that were drawn on clay tablets. Gradually, the pictograms became abstracted into cuneiform (Latin, "wedge-shaped") signs that were impressed rather than drawn. At its greatest extent, cuneiform writing was used from the Mediterranean coast of Syria to western Iran and from Hittite Anatolia to southern Mesopotamia. It was adapted to write at least fifteen different languages. This late Babylonian tablet contains the text of an incantation. The text, which reads from left to right, addresses Gula and Marduk (here identified by his Sumerian name, Asalluhi), who were deities associated with healing, and it calls upon them to help cure an afflicted patient, who is thought to have been attacked by a ghost. Although physicians (Akkadian asus) treated a...

 

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