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Baalbak

 

                                                

Fertile Crescent taken              Syrian Zawba3a               Bakhos Temple              Assyrian 6 figure star

from Baalbak exhibition                                                   God of Wine

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Eve with the Serpent      

Assyrian Star

 

 

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The Oriental Religions in Roman Paganism    Syrian Religion (275kb file)

 

 

 

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Mari , Syria

                  Mari was one of the major centers of Mesopotamian culture from the mid-third millennium to the eighteenth century BCE. In this class we talked particularly about the Old Babylonian period at Mari and the archives of tablets discovered in the great royal palace. Here we will look at the Zimri-Lim palace from the 20th-18th centuries BCE, the high terrace to its east, which was part of a religious area of the city, and the Temple of Dagan (also called the Temple of the Lions). We will then look at the well preserved Sacred Precinct of the earlier third millennium palace discovered under Zimri-Lim’s.   

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