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Sutton High Sports College Upper 6th Common Room

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Babylonian World Map

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TITLE: Babylonian World MapnDATE: 600-500 BCnAUTHOR: unknownnDESCRIPTION: This later Babylonian clay tablet dating from the Persian Period (early 5th century BC) shows an asysocentic view of a flat round world with Babylonia in the center Its identity as a map attempting to depict the entire world is proved by the adjacent text which mentions seven outer regions beyond the encircling ocean This is a slightly different concept from that of the early Greeks for whom the encircling ocean was outside of all known landsnnAt this time Babylon was still a flourishing city regarded as the center - the hub - of the universe Yet only with the rise to supremacy of the Babylonian kings with Hammurabi toward 2000 BC had its claim to this position become possible Previously the position was occupied by one of the former capitals of the earlier kingdoms Probably the Sumerians made the city of Nippur- honored by them as a central shrine a Sumerian Rome - the center of the universe from about 2300 BC for at that time supremacy was regarded as conditional upon the possession of NippurnnIn addition to the entire kingdom of Babylonia which is schematically portrayed seven unnamed circles are depicted and an accompanying cuneiform text is found on both sides of the tablet The text contains names of countries and cities but on the reverse side is chiefly concerned with a description of the Seven Islands or regions which are depicted in the form of equal triangles (only one of which is entirely intact on the tablet) rising beyond the circle of the Earthly Ocean Some scholars believe that there may have been eight islands originally The tablet further states that these islands are at equal distances of seven miles (from either each other or from the Babylonian world) around the outer periphery of the Earthly Ocean Various legendary beasts are named which were reputed to live in regions beyond the ocean that encircled the Babylonian world A few ancient heroes reached those places and the badly damaged text appears to describe conditions in them The map is really a diagram to show the relation of these places to the world of the BabyloniansnnThe Babylonians knew little about the nature of these seven islands We hear chiefly only of their various degrees of brightness From the text on the tablet and the inscriptions on the chart itself we learn that the first island lay in the southeast the second in the southwest and so on in a clockwise sequencennThe descriptions of the first and second islands are not preserved The third island is where the winged bird ends not his flight ie cannot reach On the forth island the light is brighter than that of sunset or stars: it lay in the northwest and after sunset in summer was practically in semi-obscurity The fifth island due north lay in complete darkness - a land where one sees nothing and the sun is not visible The Sumerians and Babylonians probably had some knowledge possibly acquired from other people of the northern high latitudes and of the polar nights Highly remarkable is the sixth island where a horned bull dwells and attacks the newcomer An exactly similar presentation true to tradition occurs in the same position in an astrolabe of the 17th century AD and has been used in the reconstruction of the tablet The seventh island lay in the east and is thus described: where the morning dawns meaning that it faces the sunrise Again the islands are all seven miles distant from the earth but the distance between them varies being sometimes six sometimes nine miles The description of two of these islands however has not survivednnAccording to Babylonian ideas the islands said to lie between the Earthly and the Heavenly Oceans connected the heavens and the earth These islands form bridges to the Heavenly Ocean wherein are the various animal constellations 18 of which are mentioned by namennThus round the heavens flowed the Heavenly Ocean corresponding to the Earthly Ocean on the earth And in the Heavenly Ocean were animal constellations the vanished gods These probably recur in the expression belt of heaven the Sumerian for which may be literally translated divine animals As the animal constellations also sank below the horizon so the Heavenly Ocean extended beneath the earth so that plenty of room existed below the Underworld for the passage of the sun moon and planets After the overthrow of the old world order of Apsu and Tiamat or Chaos the former gods according to the Babylonian Epic of Creation were deposed and banned as animals to the Heavenly Ocean by command of the creator of the new worldnnIn the beginning everything was ocean - the Apsu - Chaos whence arose a number of divinities including Tiamat (the sea) and the gods Anu Enlil and Enki (Ea) the later representatives of the tripartite world Now Apsu desired to destroy his offspring but was killed by Enki who looked upon the Apsu as his home Then Tiamat who went forth to revenge Apsu was vanquished in conflict with Sumer Babylon and Assur respectively Now before the struggle Tiamat had created in place of Apsu huge monsters in animal form The late Sumerian ruler Gudea of Lagash (2600 BC) records in his inscriptions seven such monsters in Hammurabi's time (about 2000 BC) the number was eleven The text of the Babylonian cosmos however enumerates eighteen animals but the names of two of them are not known Each of the last two texts named begin with the same three animals: Basmu Mushus and (Laha) mu It appears from these tests that in the course of time new kinds of animals were addednnAll of these animal constellations though not to be confused with our zodiac knowledge which in this form has not been traced beyond about 420 BC may nevertheless be approximately equated with our zodiacal signs among other things and changes however the names have naturally altered in the course of time The chief animals are also shown on some post-Babylonian tablets of an astronomical nature Karl Maasz has therefore made use of these drawings in his reconstruction in which pictures of the so called boundary stones have served as guides According to the drawings of the clay tablet in question the order of the animal constellations run from right to left - from north to west then around to the east The text contains the following full list of animals in the Heavenly Ocean : (1) the adder (Basmu) (2) the red serpent (Mushus)- a typical name for the dragon of Babybn which the god Marduk borrowed from the god Enlil of Nippur this dragon appears as a decoration on the Ishtar Gate of Babylon He is of special interest because the four animal elements which compose him are borrowed from the neighboring animal constellations: the front legs from the lion standing before him the back legs from the raven or eagle standing behind him the scorpion's sting on his tail from the scorpion next to him here The dragon himself represents in principle a serpent - the hydra (3) the Lahamu a serpent with the front feet of a lion also reminiscent in this respect here of its neighbor the lion (the hydra) (4) the gazelle (5) the bull (in the late Sumerian period a wild bull) (6) the panther (7) the ram (8) unknown (9) the lion (the constellation Leo) (10) the jackal (the constellation Cassiopeia) (11) the stag (the constellation Andromeda) (12) the fowl ( the falcon) (13) unknown (14) the monkey (15) the he-goat also known as the goat-fish (16) the ostrich (probably the crane) (17) the cat (18) an insect possibly the grasshopper The numbers 1-18 correspond to the numbers on the illustration except that numbers 8 and 13 are not preserved in the text of the clay tabletnnThese divine animal constellations which dwell in the Heavenly Ocean are there named the departed gods (in another cuneiform document they are referred to as the gods of the night and the goddesses of the night) because they were derived from the earlier vanished gods of the Sumerians which as the result of a reform in prehistoric times were deposed and replaced by human gods The Epic of Creation is the acknowledgment of this reformnnAll of this - the Seven Islands the animal constellations and the Heavenly Ocean - encircle the primary focus of the tablet the world map The earth proper again is displayed as a circular disc Enclosed by the circle of the Earthly Ocean lies an oblong marked Babylon with two parallel lines running to it from mountains at the edge of the enclosure and running on to a marsh which is identified by two parallel lines near the bottom of the circle The marsh can be identified as the swamp of lower present-day Iraq its identity secured by the name Bit Yakin at its left end the so called Sea Country and known to be a tribal territory covering marshland A trumpet-shaped arm of the ocean curves around the right end of the marsh so that its neck touches the lines from Babylon Despite the absence of a name it is clear that the parallel lines running to and from Babylon represent the river Euphrates To the right of Babylon an oval marks Assyria and above it is apparently Urartu eastern Turkey and Armenia Several other cities are marked by small circles one near the trumpet-shaped sea named Fort of the god is probably Der Badrah at the foot of the Zagros Mountains The name Khabban to the upper left appears to denote an area of Elam southeast of the Zagros geographically out of place (it might also be another town of the same name otherwise unknown) At the top in the north are the mountains whence the Euphrates descends in a southeasterly direction In the center lies Babylon - the hub of the universe Encircling the earth is the Earthly Ocean entitled the Bitter River creating a gulf (the Persian Gulf of today) it flows across the earth as far as the Euphrates To the southwest is shown the land of Habban For the rest the map gives various nameless places indicated only by blank ovals It is oriented towards the northwest From other Babylonian sources it can be learned that for the Babylonians the Bitter River or Earthly Ocean was enclosed by a double range of mountains those to the east and west - the sunrise and sunset range respectively being specially mentionednObviously this is not so much a topographical map as it is an attempt to illustrate ideas expressed in the accompanying text greatest attention being paid to the remote regions The Babylonians evidently viewed the earth as flat in common with other ancient peoples Their references to the four comers relate to the directions of the winds and should not be taken as implying that they thought it was squarennIn summary the Babylonian cosmos comprises a world map executed in cartographic manner a contour sketch of the Seven Islands complete with descriptive text and finally a descriptive text (only) of the Heavenly Ocean and its animal constellations

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Babylonian World Map