Ancient Replicas - Weld Prism

Build a Fortress

Walls and Towers
Decorative Items

Assyria

Biblical

Jehu Relief

Biblical
Stone Sculpture of a Winged Lamassu, from Khorsabad
Winged Lamassu

Biblical
Tiglath-Pileser III Fragment of a gypsum tablet from the palace of Nimrud.
Tiglath-Pileser III

Biblical

Sargon II

Biblical
Relief of King Ashurbanipal Reposing with His Queen in the Royal Garden
Ashurbanipal Feasting

Biblical
Detail of Hebrew captives playing music, from Lachish, wandering through a mountain forest, accompanied by an Assyrian warrior carrying a club
Hebrew Captives

Biblical
Sargon II and his Tartan
Sargon II and Tartan

Biblical

Trodden Under Foot

Biblical

Tiglath-Pileser in Chariot

Biblical
Relief of Slaves in a Quarry
Forced Quarry Labor

Winged bull with human head, from the palace of Sargon II at Khorsabad
Winged Bull Guardian

Winged human-headed bull colossus from Khorsabad
Human Headed Bull

Hero Grasping Lion

Alabaster lion from entrance to temple of Ninurta at Nimrud, reign of Ashurnasirpal II (883-859 BC)
Assyrian Lion

Biblical

Sargon and High Official

Biblical

Eagle-Headed Deity

Biblical

King Hunting

Lachish Captives

Assyrian Slinger

Ashurbanipal Hunting

Biblical
The Black Obelisk of Shalmaneser III
The Black Obelisk

Biblical

Sennacherib's Prism

Assyrian Soldier 1

Assyrian Soldier 2

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Below images are rated M for violence

Biblical
Relief of Ashurbanipal Stabbing Lion With Sword
King Stabbing Lion

Relief of Siege Scene with Battering-Ram and Impaled Bodies, gypsum, Palace of Tiglath-pileser III
Battering Ram

Relief depicting the siege of a fortified city
Siege Relief

Assyrian Archers

Biblical

Blinding Prisoners

Impaled Prisoners

Babylon

The Striding Lion on the Ishtar Gate of Babylon
The Striding Lion

Biblical

Weld-Blundell Prism

The Weld-Blundell Prism is the most extensive surviving list of the rulers of ancient Iraq for the period from 3200 - 1800 BC. It contains an outlined history of the world written by a scribe named Nur-Ninsubur. He provides a list of the kings that reigned from the beginning of his race to the present time. Among the kings listed are 10 kings with extraordinary long life spans, and they existed before the flood. The Weld Prism discovery is important in the study of Biblical Archaeology because it confirms the Biblical account of longevity before the flood, and contains other similarities in its list of kings as well.

"And all the days of Methuselah were nine hundred sixty and nine years: and he died." Genesis 5:27

Material - Baked Clay Prism
Larsa in Babylonia. just north of Ur.
Date: 2170 BC.
Height: 20 cm (7.87401575 inches)
Width: 9 cm (3.54330709 inches)
Depth:
Style: 4-Sided Prism, 2-Columns on each of the 4 faces
Text: Old Akkadian Cuneiform
Writer: Nur-Ninsubur a Scribe
Larsa in Babylonia, Iraq
Excavated by: Weld-Blundell Expedition 1922
Location: Ashmolean Museum in Oxford

https://www.ashmol.ox.ac.uk/ash/faqs/q001/q001006.html

The Weld-Blundell Prism

Why is it so famous beyond the world of scholars?

The list begins with kings before "the Flood".

The earlier sections of the Book of Genesis in the Old Testament parallels this part of the Sumerian King-List.

Not only are there close parallels with the Biblical Flood Story, but also with the genealogies in Genesis 5 and 11.

The superhuman life-spans given there, which decrease after the Flood, are comparable to those in the inscription on this prism.