Nineteenth-century engraving of the Nimrud temple relief of a god battling a chaos monster - long reproduced (including by Budge) as the fight of Marduk and Tiamat, though scholars also read it as Ninurta and Anzu.
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Relief: 9th century BCE; engraving: 1853 - Layard, Second Series, Plate 5
British Museum relief; plate from A. H. Layard, A Second Series of the Monuments of Nineveh (1853)
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Photographic plate of the first tablet of Enuma Elish, the Babylonian epic of creation, from L. W. King's The Seven Tablets of Creation (1902). Budge's Babylonian Legends of Creation retells the same tablet series.
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Tablet: 1st millennium BCE; plate: 1902 - Seven Tablets of Creation, Tablet I, Plate I
British Museum tablet; plate from L. W. King, The Seven Tablets of Creation (1902)
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Esarhaddon cuneiform prism describing the restoration of Babylon, with the source record explicitly tying the rebuilding claim to Marduk and legitimate rule.
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ca. 676–672 BCE - 86.11.283
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
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