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Battle Between Marduk and Zu
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Title: Battle Between Marduk and Zu
Caption: Battle Between Marduk and Zu, Relief at Nimrud. 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. Zu is a lesser divinity of Akkadian mythology, a divine storm-bird and the personification of the southern wind and the thunder clouds. This demon, half man and half bird, stole the Tablets of Destiny from Enlil and hid them on a mountaintop. Anu ordered the other gods to retrieve the tablets, even though they all feared the demon. Marduk took up the challenge, and killed the it.
Personalities: BABYLON • MESOPOTAMIAN • ASSYRIAN • SUMERIAN
Category: black & white • History: Ancient • Culture: Mythology
Credit: Album / Science Source / New York Public Library
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Image size: 4500 × 3181 px | 41.0 MB
Print size: 38.1 × 26.9 cm | 1771.7 × 1252.4 in (300 dpi)
Keywords: ACCADIAN ART • AKKADIAN • ANCIENT CIVILIZATION • ANCIENT CULTURE • ANCIENT • ANIMAL • ANUNNAKI • ANZU • ARCHEOLOGICAL ARTIFACT • ART • ARTIFACT • ARTWORK • ASSYRIAN • BABYLON • BAS RELIEF • BAS-RELIEF • BLACK & WHITE • BW • CELEBRITIES • CELEBRITY • CRADLE OF CIVILIZATION • CREATURE • CULTURE: MYTHOLOGY • DEITY • FABLED • FAMOUS PEOPLE • FAMOUS • FICTIONAL • FOLKLORE • FOLKLORIC • GOD • GRIFFIN • HISTORIC • HISTORICAL • HISTORY • HISTORY: ANCIENT • IMAGINARY • IMDUGUD • IMPORTANT • LEGEND • LEGENDARY • LORE • LOW RELIEF • MARDUK • MESOPOTAMIA • MESOPOTAMIAN • MONSTER • MYTH • MYTHIC • MYTHICAL • MYTHOLOGICAL • NOTABLE • RELIEF • RELIEVO RILIEVO • SCULPTURE • STORM BIRD • STORM-BIRD • SUMERIAN • WELL-KNOWN • ZU
