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נאריש זשלאָב מענטש<p>"Yael and Schwab dig into one of the most fascinating artifacts of <a href="https://babka.social/tags/Jewish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Jewish</span></a> antiquity: the <a href="https://babka.social/tags/Babylonian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Babylonian</span></a> incantation bowls. These 5th–6th century earthenware bowls, found primarily in modern-day <a href="https://babka.social/tags/Iraq" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Iraq</span></a>, were used by <a href="https://babka.social/tags/Jews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Jews</span></a>—and their neighbors—as <a href="https://babka.social/tags/magical" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>magical</span></a> <a href="https://babka.social/tags/amulets" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>amulets</span></a> to ward off <a href="https://babka.social/tags/demons" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>demons</span></a>, secure love, boost fertility, and protect homes. The conversation explores how these artifacts reflect the everyday concerns of Jews in late antiquity, how they blur the line between <a href="https://babka.social/tags/halacha" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>halacha</span></a> and <a href="https://babka.social/tags/magic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>magic</span></a>, and what they reveal about cultural exchange across ancient religions. Whether you’re into Jewish magic, <a href="https://babka.social/tags/rabbinic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>rabbinic</span></a> <a href="https://babka.social/tags/history" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>history</span></a>, or just want to know how to trap a <a href="https://babka.social/tags/demon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>demon</span></a> in your cereal bowl, this episode has you covered."</p><p><a href="https://unpacked.media/buried-secrets-jewish-magic-demons-and-the-babylonian-incantation-bowls/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">unpacked.media/buried-secrets-</span><span class="invisible">jewish-magic-demons-and-the-babylonian-incantation-bowls/</span></a></p>
Global Museum<p>Babylonian Map of the World, c. 6th century BC. Made of clay with cuneiform inscriptions. Currently in the collection of the British Museum, London.<br>Archaeology &amp; Art @archaeologyart <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Babylonian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Babylonian</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/maps" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>maps</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/museums" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>museums</span></a></p>
Dave Muth<p>This fine paper is free. The whole issue is also available to download, free.</p><p><a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0315086017300691#se0120" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">sciencedirect.com/science/arti</span><span class="invisible">cle/pii/S0315086017300691#se0120</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mas.to/tags/Archaeology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Archaeology</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Ancient" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Ancient</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Babylonian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Babylonian</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/History" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>History</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Babylon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Babylon</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Trigonometry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trigonometry</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Base60" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Base60</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Archeology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Archeology</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Maths" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Maths</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Math" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Math</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/@globalmuseum/112759179888907840" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">mastodon.online/@globalmuseum/</span><span class="invisible">112759179888907840</span></a></p>
Global Museum<p>An Australian mathematician cracked the code of a famous 3,700 year old Babylonian clay tablet revealing that they were doing more accurate trigonometry nearly 1,500 years before the Greeks.<br>In 2017, Australian mathematician Dr. Daniel Mansfield from the University of New South Wales decoded a 3,700-year-old <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Babylonian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Babylonian</span></a> clay tablet known as Plimpton 322. The tablet contains a series of numbers arranged in four columns and 15 rows. For a long time, the purpose of these numbers remained a mystery.</p>
HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://berlin.social/@mina" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>mina</span></a></span> </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Geschichte" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Geschichte</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/KaiserKonstantin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>KaiserKonstantin</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Kalender" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Kalender</span></a></p><p>(10/n)</p><p>...Tag des <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/babylonischenKalenders" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>babylonischenKalenders</span></a>, an dem nicht gearbeitet werden sollte, da er auch mit Unheil in Verbindung gebracht wurde:</p><p>"<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Babylonian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Babylonian</span></a>...that a seven-day unit time is mentioned in <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/cuneiform" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cuneiform</span></a> inscriptions 👉 with the especially important seventh day.👈 [❗ Der 7. und nicht der 1. Tag❗ ] This was a day when working, making sacrifice, etc. was prohibited, i.c. according to <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/cuneiform" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cuneiform</span></a> inscriptions <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Sapattu" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Sapattu</span></a> is interpreted as..</p>
Infrapink (he/his/him)<p>But before that, there was and is <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/Akitu" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Akitu</span></a>, the <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/Assyrian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Assyrian</span></a> and <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/Babylonian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Babylonian</span></a> equinox celebration (which also seems to have a counterpart in <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/Sumer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Sumer</span></a>). Modern <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/Assyrians" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Assyrians</span></a> celebrate Akitu on 1 April to coïncide with the beginning of a Gregorian month, but in ancient times, it was on the day of the actual equinox. My understanding is that the civil year officially began on the day of the new moon close to the equinox, but I might be wrong about that.</p><p>4/</p>
Art History Animalia<p>More for <a href="https://historians.social/tags/WorldFrogDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WorldFrogDay</span></a>: </p><p><a href="https://historians.social/tags/Frog" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Frog</span></a> weight<br><a href="https://historians.social/tags/Mesopotamia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Mesopotamia</span></a>, Old <a href="https://historians.social/tags/Babylonian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Babylonian</span></a> c.2000–1600BCE<br>Stone (diorite or andesite)<br>12.3 x 21.8 cm, 4.7 kg <br>inscription: "a frog [weighing] 10 minas, a legitimate weight of the god Shamash, belonging to Iddin-Nergal, son of Arkat-ili-damqa." </p><p>With two bonus hematite babies!</p><p>Weights in the shape of frogs<br>Mesopotamia, Iran, or Cyprus, early 2nd millennium BCE<br>Hematite<br>1.12 x 1.5 x 2.62 cm &amp; 1.4 × 0.9 × 0.8 cm</p><p>Photographed on display at the Met in NYC.</p>
TheBlackJester<p>Notice the Media Kills The Same Notable People Frequently? <a href="https://www.tobj.ws/?id=318" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">tobj.ws/?id=318</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/TheBlackJester" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TheBlackJester</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/Sumerian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Sumerian</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/Babylonian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Babylonian</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/Canaanite" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Canaanite</span></a></p>
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