UK Returns 3,000-Year-Old Tablet Looted During Iraq War

[The SC]

Tuesday, 19 March, 2019 - 14:45

The kudurru is a ceremonial stone tablet recording the legal gifting of land by Babylonian king Nebuchadnezzar I to one of his subjects | AFP
Baghdad- Asharq Al-Awsat


A 3,000-year-old carved stone tablet from Babylonia, which promises a curse on those who would destroy it, is to be flown home from Britain after being looted during the Iraq War.

British Museum boss Hartwig Fischer handed over the priceless work to Iraqi Ambassador Salih Husain Ali during a ceremony on Tuesday after museum experts had verified its provenance.

"It is a very important piece of Iraq's cultural heritage," said Fischer, praising the "extraordinary and tireless work" of border officials.

They spotted the object at London's Heathrow airport in 2012 and contacted the museum after being presented with fake documents.

"They seized this item when they saw it at a British port and several years later, after a lot of legal work, we are able to effect this transfer," said Michael Ellis, Britain's Minister for Arts, Heritage, and Tourism.

"It's a very important and significant moment."

It is still not clear how the object was taken out of Iraq, "but we believe it was probably stolen about 15 years ago during troubles in Iraq," he said.

The kudurru is a ceremonial stone tablet recording the legal gifting of land by the Babylonian king Nebuchadnezzar I to one of his subjects in return for distinguished service, according to curator Jonathan Taylor.

On one side are depictions of the great Babylonian gods Enlil and Marduk, and on the other, legal text written in cuneiform, the Babylonian alphabet.

Taylor said the object also carried "terrible curses" for anyone trying to claim the land or damage the tablet.

Fewer than 200 such objects are known to exist, and the one handed over on Tuesday was broken in antiquity and eroded, presenting a problem for sleuths trying to establish its history.

"The basic identification is quite straightforward," said Taylor.

"More difficult is tying down exactly who the king is and what the circumstances are, for that we need to read the inscription and it's quite worn, there's a lot of damage in the middle of the text," he said.

"It's old fashioned bookwork. We have a few clues."

They established the king was Nebuchadnezzar I, "a kind of national hero, a legend in his own lifetime".

The stone is thought to have originally been on display in the ancient city of Nippur, now in central Iraq.

"It's more than just a carved stone... It is a testament to the remarkable history of the Republic of Iraq," said Ellis.


https://aawsat.com/english/home/art...s-3000-year-old-tablet-looted-during-iraq-war

 

[Pakhtoon yum]

What else have they stole?

 

[KhalaiMakhlooq]

kudurru

have you noticed the words Khudah (god), Quds (temple), Qadr (fate), Kaba (temple) and Kuran (holy book) all start with a similar sound.

 

[The SC]

have you noticed the words Khudah (god), Quds (temple), Qadr (fate), Kaba (temple) and Kuran (holy book) all start with a similar sound.

Not really E.T..
Khudah and Kaaba do not sound the same in Arabic as Quds, Qadr, Quraan

 

[KhalaiMakhlooq]

Nebuchadnezzar

also does any one know if this was prophet. because nabi means prophet

 

[fitpOsitive]

What else have they stole?

Everything.

Tuesday, 19 March, 2019 - 14:45

The kudurru is a ceremonial stone tablet recording the legal gifting of land by Babylonian king Nebuchadnezzar I to one of his subjects | AFP
Baghdad- Asharq Al-Awsat


A 3,000-year-old carved stone tablet from Babylonia, which promises a curse on those who would destroy it, is to be flown home from Britain after being looted during the Iraq War.

British Museum boss Hartwig Fischer handed over the priceless work to Iraqi Ambassador Salih Husain Ali during a ceremony on Tuesday after museum experts had verified its provenance.

"It is a very important piece of Iraq's cultural heritage," said Fischer, praising the "extraordinary and tireless work" of border officials.

They spotted the object at London's Heathrow airport in 2012 and contacted the museum after being presented with fake documents.

"They seized this item when they saw it at a British port and several years later, after a lot of legal work, we are able to effect this transfer," said Michael Ellis, Britain's Minister for Arts, Heritage, and Tourism.

"It's a very important and significant moment."

It is still not clear how the object was taken out of Iraq, "but we believe it was probably stolen about 15 years ago during troubles in Iraq," he said.

The kudurru is a ceremonial stone tablet recording the legal gifting of land by the Babylonian king Nebuchadnezzar I to one of his subjects in return for distinguished service, according to curator Jonathan Taylor.

On one side are depictions of the great Babylonian gods Enlil and Marduk, and on the other, legal text written in cuneiform, the Babylonian alphabet.

Taylor said the object also carried "terrible curses" for anyone trying to claim the land or damage the tablet.

Fewer than 200 such objects are known to exist, and the one handed over on Tuesday was broken in antiquity and eroded, presenting a problem for sleuths trying to establish its history.

"The basic identification is quite straightforward," said Taylor.

"More difficult is tying down exactly who the king is and what the circumstances are, for that we need to read the inscription and it's quite worn, there's a lot of damage in the middle of the text," he said.

"It's old fashioned bookwork. We have a few clues."

They established the king was Nebuchadnezzar I, "a kind of national hero, a legend in his own lifetime".

The stone is thought to have originally been on display in the ancient city of Nippur, now in central Iraq.

"It's more than just a carved stone... It is a testament to the remarkable history of the Republic of Iraq," said Ellis.


https://aawsat.com/english/home/art...s-3000-year-old-tablet-looted-during-iraq-war

Time to take Kohinoor back.

 

[The SC]

What else have they stole?

...
This is the story of the Lady of Warka, also known as the Mona Lisa of Mesopotamia. A priceless Sumerian artifact dating back to 3100 B.C., it’s the earliest known representation of the human face. It was looted from the museum in Baghdad—along with 15,000 other antiquities—in the chaotic aftermath of the U.S. invasion of Iraq. Soon after, a tip from an Iraqi informant led American and Iraqi investigators to raid a nearby farm. They found the Lady of Warka intact. In September 2003, it was returned to the museum.

Other artifacts have not been as lucky. Fifteen years after U.S. forces toppled Saddam Hussein, ushering in a period of instability that led to the plunder of the museum while ignoring pleas to secure the building, some 7,000 looted items have been returned, but about 8,000 are still out there. And that’s only counting the items that were stolen from the museum. After the invasion, thousands of other artifacts were taken directly out of the ground at archeological sites. In most cases, their whereabouts are unknown.

The Lady of Warka at the Iraq Museum (Courtesy of Ayman Al Amiri / Ruya Foundation)

https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2018/03/iraq-war-archeology-invasion/555200/

 

[KhalaiMakhlooq]

Although not mentioned by name, the Quran has a story with similarities to the biblical story of the Tower of Babel, although set in the Egypt of Moses: Pharaoh asks Haman to build him a stone (or clay) tower so that he can mount up to heaven and confront the Godof Moses.[36]

Another story in Sura 2:102 mentions the name of Babil, but tells of when the two angels Harut and Marut taught magic to some people in Babylon and warned them that magic is a sin and that their teaching them magic is a test of faith.[37] A tale about Babil appears more fully in the writings of Yaqut (i, 448 f.) and the Lisān al-ʿArab [ar] (xiii. 72), but without the tower: mankind were swept together by winds into the plain that was afterward called "Babil", where they were assigned their separate languages by God, and were then scattered again in the same way. In the History of the Prophets and Kings by the 9th-century Muslim theologian al-Tabari, a fuller version is given: Nimrod has the tower built in Babil, God destroys it, and the language of mankind, formerly Syriac, is then confused into 72 languages. Another Muslim historian of the 13th century, Abu al-Fida relates the same story, adding that the patriarch Eber(an ancestor of Abraham) was allowed to keep the original tongue, Hebrew in this case, because he would not partake in the building.[28]



also the first writing system according to history was sumeria (and ancient sumeria is modern day iraq)

The earliest writing systems evolved independently and at roughly the same time in Egypt and Mesopotamia, but current scholarship suggests that Mesopotamia's writing appeared first. That writing system, invented by the Sumerians, emerged in Mesopotamia around 3500 BCE

 

[Peaceful Civilian]

Finally, they returned it. Good gesture.

 

[KhalaiMakhlooq]

Pharaoh asks Haman to build him a stone (or clay) tower so that he can mount up to heaven and confront the Godof Moses.[36]

Nebu chad nezzar = Nabi Khudah Nazzar ?

 

[The SC]

also does any one know if this was prophet. because nabi means prophet

Nabū

Nabu was worshipped by the Babylonians and the Assyrians.[2] Nabu was known as Nisaba in the Sumerian pantheon and gained prominence among the Babylonians in the 1st millennium BC when he was identified as the son of the god Marduk.[2]
Nabu was worshipped in Babylon's sister city Borsippa, where his statue was moved to Babylon each New Year so that he could pay his respects to his father.[2] Nabu's symbol was a stylus resting on a tablet.[2] Clay tablets with especial calligraphic skill were used as offerings at Nabu's temple. His wife was the Akkadian goddess Tashmet.[2]
Nabu was the patron god of scribes, literacy, and wisdom.[2] He was also the inventor of writing, a divine scribe, and the patron god of the rational arts.[3] Due to his role as an oracle, Nabu was associated with the Mesopotamian moon god Sin[3] and the scribe god Ninurta.[4]
Nabu wore a horned cap, and stood with his hands clasped in the ancient gesture of priesthood. He rode on a winged dragon known as Sirrush that originally belonged to his father Marduk. In Babylonian astrology, Nabu was identified with the planet Mercury.[5][6]
Nabu was continuously worshipped until the 2nd century, when cuneiform became a lost art.[2]


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nabu

 

[KhalaiMakhlooq]

Nabū

Nabu was worshipped by the Babylonians and the Assyrians.[2] Nabu was known as Nisaba in the Sumerian pantheon and gained prominence among the Babylonians in the 1st millennium BC when he was identified as the son of the god Marduk.[2]
Nabu was worshipped in Babylon's sister city Borsippa, where his statue was moved to Babylon each New Year so that he could pay his respects to his father.[2] Nabu's symbol was a stylus resting on a tablet.[2] Clay tablets with especial calligraphic skill were used as offerings at Nabu's temple. His wife was the Akkadian goddess Tashmet.[2]
Nabu was the patron god of scribes, literacy, and wisdom.[2] He was also the inventor of writing, a divine scribe, and the patron god of the rational arts.[3] Due to his role as an oracle, Nabu was associated with the Mesopotamian moon god Sin[3] and the scribe god Ninurta.[4]
Nabu wore a horned cap, and stood with his hands clasped in the ancient gesture of priesthood. He rode on a winged dragon known as Sirrush that originally belonged to his father Marduk. In Babylonian astrology, Nabu was identified with the planet Mercury.[5][6]
Nabu was continuously worshipped until the 2nd century, when cuneiform became a lost art.[2]


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nabu

Nebuchadnezzar could have been an unknown prophet

He is unrelated to his later namesake, Nabû-kudurrī-uṣur II, who has come to be known by the Hebrew form of his name “Nebuchadnezzar.” Consequently, it is anachronistic but not inappropriate to apply this designation retroactively to the earlier king, as he does not make an appearance in the Bible. He is misidentified in the Chronicle Concerning the Reign of Šamaš-šuma-ukin[i 4] as the brother of Širikti-šuqamuna probably in place of Ninurta-kudurrῑ-uṣur I.[1] He succeeded his father, Ninurta-nādin-šumi, and was succeeded in turn by his son Enlil-nādin-apli, brother Marduk-nādin-aḫḫē and then nephew Marduk-šāpik-zēri, the only members of this family known to have reigned during the dynasty.

The Enmeduranki legend, or the seed of kingship,[i 5] is a Sumero-Akkadian composition relating his endowment with perfect wisdom (nam-kù-zu) by the god Marduk and his claim to belong to a “distant line of kingship from before the flood” and to be an “offspring of Enmeduranki, king of Sippar.”

Enlil Enki Nabu and Marduk were not gods, but honorary titles.

 

[The SC]

Nebuchadnezzar could have been an unknown prophet

He is unrelated to his later namesake, Nabû-kudurrī-uṣur II, who has come to be known by the Hebrew form of his name “Nebuchadnezzar.” Consequently, it is anachronistic but not inappropriate to apply this designation retroactively to the earlier king, as he does not make an appearance in the Bible. He is misidentified in the Chronicle Concerning the Reign of Šamaš-šuma-ukin[i 4] as the brother of Širikti-šuqamuna probably in place of Ninurta-kudurrῑ-uṣur I.[1] He succeeded his father, Ninurta-nādin-šumi, and was succeeded in turn by his son Enlil-nādin-apli, brother Marduk-nādin-aḫḫē and then nephew Marduk-šāpik-zēri, the only members of this family known to have reigned during the dynasty.

The Enmeduranki legend, or the seed of kingship,[i 5] is a Sumero-Akkadian composition relating his endowment with perfect wisdom (nam-kù-zu) by the god Marduk and his claim to belong to a “distant line of kingship from before the flood” and to be an “offspring of Enmeduranki, king of Sippar.”

Enlil Enki Nabu and Marduk were not gods, but honorary titles.

All known prophets' names are the same from Torah, the Bible and Quran..
I just showed you that Nabu is in Akkadian a word meaning a god.. while Nabi is very specific to Arabic..meaning a prophet.. so do not get confused with the pronunciation proximities look for the meaning in different languages//

Ancient Babylonian Artifact Seized at London Airport Returns to Iraq

https://www.thevintagenews.com/2019/03/17/kudurru/

 

[KhalaiMakhlooq]

while Nabi is very specific to Arabic..meaning a prophet.. so do not get confused with the pronunciation proximities look for the meaning in different languages

Nabu is a Syriac word. Arabic language descends from Syriac.

the idea is that after the destruction of babylon, the language was destroyed into 72 parts.

Nimrod has the tower built in Babil, God destroys it, and the language of mankind, formerly Syriac, is then confused into 72 languages.

and considering that arabic script even descends from syriac

there should be a good degree of similarity between modern arabic and (post scattered i.e. post cuneiform) syriac sumerian language

 

[Pakhtoon yum]

...
This is the story of the Lady of Warka, also known as the Mona Lisa of Mesopotamia. A priceless Sumerian artifact dating back to 3100 B.C., it’s the earliest known representation of the human face. It was looted from the museum in Baghdad—along with 15,000 other antiquities—in the chaotic aftermath of the U.S. invasion of Iraq. Soon after, a tip from an Iraqi informant led American and Iraqi investigators to raid a nearby farm. They found the Lady of Warka intact. In September 2003, it was returned to the museum.

Other artifacts have not been as lucky. Fifteen years after U.S. forces toppled Saddam Hussein, ushering in a period of instability that led to the plunder of the museum while ignoring pleas to secure the building, some 7,000 looted items have been returned, but about 8,000 are still out there. And that’s only counting the items that were stolen from the museum. After the invasion, thousands of other artifacts were taken directly out of the ground at archeological sites. In most cases, their whereabouts are unknown.

The Lady of Warka at the Iraq Museum (Courtesy of Ayman Al Amiri / Ruya Foundation)

https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2018/03/iraq-war-archeology-invasion/555200/

No, no, no. It's not stolen, it was simply taken by them so that it could be preserved because those people that made it, are not capable of keeping it safe. So you see, it was for their own good.

Said the French government in response to someone telling them to return the stolen art to the Africans.

Everything.



Time to take Kohinoor back.

Well that was kinda given. Their nations are filled with the wealth looted from all corner of the planet