Mesopotamia
Gilgamesh's home city
What is Uruk?
God with green skin who, although he was resurrected, stays in the Underworld as a judge of the Dead
Who is Osiris?
The chief wife/queen of Akhenaten, whose name means "The Beautiful One Has Come."
Who is Nefertiti?
Visual representations in art that are a means of distinguishing and identifying (usually mythical) figures
What is iconography?
An object or design resembling a cross but having a loop instead of the top arm, used in ancient Egypt as a symbol of life
What is an ankh?
Snake-dragon, and Marduk's pet
What is a Mušḫuššu?
Not one work, but a series of small personalized collections of spells meant to protect the dead on the journey through the Afterlife
What is the Book of the Dead? (Or, the Book of Going/Coming Forth by Day)
The warrior king of Assyria who built a huge library
A group of gods that a culture or people worship together.
What is a pantheon?
This symbol, also known as the left wedjat eye, is a concept and symbol in ancient Egyptian religion that represents well-being, healing, and protection.
What is the Eye of Horus?
Gilgamesh does this upon Enkidu's death
What is look for immortality?
The creator god in Memphite theology who 'spits' to create life
Who is Ptah?
Shin-liqe-unninni compiled the tablets of this epic into a complete collection.
What is The Epic of Gilgamesh?
A myth depicting the origin of the universe.
What is cosmogony?
An oval surrounding a collection of hieroglyphs to denote a name
What is a cartouche?
Bull of Heaven, sent by Anu on Ishtar's behalf to kill Gilgamesh and Enkidu
Who is Gugalanna?
The battle that this "Serpent of Chaos" wages against Ra in the Underworld every night symbolizes the struggle between maat and isfet
Who is Apophis/Apep?
Man who translated cuneiform for the first time (and danced around the British Museum naked).
Who is George Smith?
The word used to describe gods with animal heads
What is zoomorphic or theriomorphic?
A physical representation of a divinity, sometimes used in rituals or considered to be inhabited by that figure
What is a cult statue?
The world's first named author, who composed many poems to Inanna/Ishtar
Who is Enheduana?
This Egyptian cosmogony consists of four male frog-gods and 4 female snake-gods, and follows the pattern of the primordial waters, the primordial mound, and the rising sun
What is Hermopolis/the Ogdoad?
Linguist who first translated hieroglyphs by "cracking" the code of the Rosetta Stone.
Who is (Jean-François) Champollion?
Enuma Elish translates to this in Akkadian
What is When on High/When Heaven on High?
A small round object with an incised design or inscription. It was rolled on soft clay to indicate ownership, similarly to a signature
What is a cylinder seal?