MUSIC USED:

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Head of a ruler https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/329077 The Metropolitan Museum of Art (Open Access](https://www.metmuseum.org/about-the-met/policies-and-documents/open-access) CC0

File:Nasiriyah Victory Stele of Naram-Sin, from Mesopotamia, Iraq, c. 2300 BCE. Iraq Museum.jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Nasiriyah_Victory_Stele_of_Naram-Sin,_from_Mesopotamia,_Iraq,_c._2300_BCE._Iraq_Museum.jpg Osama Shukir Muhammed Amin FRCP(Glasg) - own work CC BY SA 4.0

Top fragment of a kudurru with a mushhushshu dragon and divine symbols https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/327048?deptids=3&ao=on&showOnly=openAccess&ft=boundary+stones&offset=0&rpp=40&pos=1 The Metropolitan Museum of Art (Open Access](https://www.metmuseum.org/about-the-met/policies-and-documents/open-access) CC0

Corner fragment of inscribed prism (kudurru) https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/321904?deptids=3&ao=on&showOnly=openAccess&ft=boundary+stones&offset=0&rpp=40&pos=2 The Metropolitan Museum of Art (Open Access](https://www.metmuseum.org/about-the-met/policies-and-documents/open-access) CC0

Proto-Cuneiform tablet with seal impressions: administrative account of barley distribution with cylinder seal impression of a male figure, hunting dogs, and boars https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/329081?deptids=3&ao=on&showOnly=openAccess&ft=mesopotamia&offset=0&rpp=40&pos=4 The Metropolitan Museum of Art (Open Access](https://www.metmuseum.org/about-the-met/policies-and-documents/open-access) CC0

Inscribed brick - inscription of Isin king https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/324913?ao=on&showOnly=openAccess&ft=akkad&offset=0&rpp=40&pos=12 The Metropolitan Museum of Art (Open Access](https://www.metmuseum.org/about-the-met/policies-and-documents/open-access) CC0

Inscribed brick of Ur-Nammu https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/324915?deptids=3&ao=on&showOnly=openAccess&ft=inscribed+brick&offset=0&rpp=40&pos=1 The Metropolitan Museum of Art (Open Access](https://www.metmuseum.org/about-the-met/policies-and-documents/open-access) CC0

File:Mask of Sargon of Akkad.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mask_of_Sargon_of_Akkad.jpg Hans Ollerman / https://flickr.com/photos/7573205@N06/8426432144 / https://www.flickr.com/photos/menesje/2040313340/ CC BY SA 2.0

File:Stele of the Akkadian king Naram-Sin at Istanbul's archaeological museum.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Stele_of_the_Akkadian_king_Naram-Sin_at_Istanbul%27s_archaeological_museum.jpg Levi Clancy - own work CC0

File:Akkadian soldier of Naram-Sin.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Akkadian_soldier_of_Naram-Sin.jpg Osama Shukir Muhammed Amin FRCP(Glasg) / Extraction by पाटलिपुत्र CC BY SA 4.0

Standing male worshiper https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/323735?ao=on&showOnly=openAccess&ft=akkad&offset=0&rpp=40&pos=5 The Metropolitan Museum of Art (Open Access](https://www.metmuseum.org/about-the-met/policies-and-documents/open-access) CC0

File:Naram-Sin Rock Relief at Darband-iGawr (extracted).jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Akkadian_soldier_of_Naram-Sin.jpg#/media/File:Nasiriyah_Victory_Stele_of_Naram-Sin._From_Mesopotamia,_Iraq,_c._2300_BCE._Iraq_Museum.jpg Osama Shukir Muhammed Amin FRCP(Glasg) CC BY SA 4.0

File:Stele Naram Sim Louvre Sb4.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Stele_Naram_Sim_Louvre_Sb4.jpg Jastrow (2005) Public Domain


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