Preserved images tied to this source.
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.
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.
Babylonian inscribed prism fragment with divine symbols for Nabu and Gula, preserved as legal and protective-symbol context.
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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.
Esarhaddon cuneiform prism associated with Babylon, adding Assyrian royal-inscription context beside Babylon temple and creation passages.
Esarhaddon cuneiform prism from the Babylon region, preserved as royal-inscription context for Babylon, temple building, and sacred kingship.