Gula Incantation, Medical Cuneiform Metal Print
by Science Source
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Gula Incantation, Medical Cuneiform metal print by Science Source. Bring your artwork to life with the stylish lines and added depth of a metal print. Your image gets printed directly onto a sheet of 1/16" thick aluminum. The aluminum sheet is offset from the wall by a 3/4" thick wooden frame which is attached to the back. The high gloss of the aluminum sheet complements the rich colors of any image to produce stunning results.
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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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