6/17/2023 0 Comments Stela of tchia louvreIt was afterwards carried away by an Elamite king to Susa, i.e. The stele was set up by Hammurabi in the temple of E-SAGIL in Babylon so that it might be consulted by any man who considered himself wronged or oppressed. Le menu de Tepemankh Louvre d2.jpg 1,061 × 1,056 647 KB. The water under the shen-ring and the two flanking offering bowls represent the giving of oblation once again to the dead. Stele of Tchia-E 7717 (12 F) Media in category 'Hieroglyphs on steles' The following 6 files are in this category, out of 6 total. (III) A blessing on the man who should observe these laws, and a series of curses upon any being or governor who should break, modify, or abrogate any of them. Stela of the Attendant Pa-en-Tjeni of Onuris1 (Louvre Museum 210) A typical heading of funerary stelae: The shen-ring with two Wadjet eyes, offering eternal protection for the deceased. (II) The text of 282 laws by which the Babylonians were ordered to regulate their affairs, both private and public, and their social relationships. On the lower part of the stele are 28 columns of text containing - (I) AN INTRODUCTION in which HAMMURABI enumerates the benefits which he has conferred upon the shrines and great cities of Babylonia and Assyria. The god is seated on a mystic throne and his feet are set upon the the mountains. The god wears the horned head-dress, symbolic of divine power, and he holds in his right hand the ring and staff, emblematic of sovereignty & dominion. On the upper part is a relief in which the king, standing in the traditional attitude of worship, with his right arm bared and raised, is represented in the act of receiving the laws from Shamash to Sun-god. "CAST OF A BASALT STELE inscribed in ancient Babylonian characters with the Text of the Code of Laws which was drawn up by Hammurabi, a king of the 1st dynasty of Babylon, about B.C. Others are displayed in the National Museum in Tehran (2001) and other collections.Ĭopy of former exhibition label on the plinth: Basmachi: 'Treasures of the Iraq Museum', Baghdad 1975, pp. A cast was formerly exhibited in the Babylonian Hall of the Iraq Museum (illustrated by F. The present cast is one of two coloured casts of this object in the BM (2004 the second is currently at Blythe House) the second was made by BMCo as a plaster piece mould used to exist of it and made by directly moulding the original cast. This team leader certainly had something to be proud of, which is why he erected two steles, probably in the temple itself, recounting his efforts on behalf of the gods of the kingdom of the dead, Osiris and Upuaut, and recording for posterity the name of Imenyseneb, son of Uaemka and Lady Nebetit.A full account of the discovery, display and significance of the original stela is published by Beatrice Andre-Salvini, 'Le Code de Hammurabi', Musée du Louvre. Another stele erected by Imenyseneb, also in the Louvre, mentions the restoration of all the chapels in the temple, one by one, and the renovation of the altars used for offerings to all the gods. Imenyseneb proudly recounts how the vizier’s scribe summoned him, how he was ordered to clean up the temple of Abydos, how he supervised the complete restoration, inside and out, of this edifice built by Sesostris I, and finally, how King Khendjer in person, when passing through the city, declared his satisfaction with the work and richly rewarded Imenyseneb. 1750 BCĭepartment of Egyptian Antiquities, Musée du Louvre Middle Kingdom, 13th dynasty, reign of Khendjer, c. Uncertain provenance, very probably Abydos © 2002 Musée du Louvre / Christian Décamps
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