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Marduk, Babylonian God

This Babylonian monster with its horned lion's head and scaly body is one manifestation of Marduk who, in the Babylonian creation epic, saved the gods from destruction and was annually reinstated as their king in some form of rebirth cycle. Marduk was the Babylonian name of a god from ancient Mesopotamia and patron deity of the city of Babylon, who, when Babylon became the political center of the Euphrates valley in the time of Hammurabi rose to the position of the head of the Babylonian pantheon.
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Title:
Marduk, Babylonian God
Caption:
This Babylonian monster with its horned lion's head and scaly body is one manifestation of Marduk who, in the Babylonian creation epic, saved the gods from destruction and was annually reinstated as their king in some form of rebirth cycle. Marduk was the Babylonian name of a god from ancient Mesopotamia and patron deity of the city of Babylon, who, when Babylon became the political center of the Euphrates valley in the time of Hammurabi rose to the position of the head of the Babylonian pantheon.
Personalities:
BABYLON • MESOPOTAMIAN • ASSYRIAN • SUMERIAN
Credit:
Album / Science Source / New York Public Library
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Image size:
3276 x 4414 px | 41.4 MB
Print size:
27.7 x 37.4 cm | 10.9 x 14.7 in (300 dpi)
Keywords:
ACCADIAN ART • AKKADIAN • ANCIENT CIVILIZATION • ANCIENT CULTURE • ANCIENT • ANIMAL • ANUNNAKI • ARCHAEOLOGICAL • ARCHAEOLOGY • ARCHEOLOGICAL • ART • ARTIFACT • ARTWORK • ASSYRIAN • BABYLON • BW • CELEBRITY • CRADLE OF CIVILIZATION • CREATURE • DEITY • FABLED • FAMOUS • FICTIONAL • FOLKLORE • FOLKLORIC • GOD • HISTORIC • HISTORICAL • HISTORY • IMAGINARY • IMPORTANT • LEGEND • LEGENDARY • LORE • MARDUK • MESOPOTAMIA • MESOPOTAMIAN • MONSTER • MYTH • MYTHIC • MYTHICAL • MYTHOLOGICAL • NOTABLE • SCULPTURE • SUMERIAN • WELL-KNOWN