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  1. Basalt stela of Nabonidus
    🔗 BritishMuseum.org/collection/i
    🔗 BritishMuseum.org/collection/o
    The British Museum

    "…rounded at the top, and bearing on its #obverse the figure of a #king and #astronomical #symbols (the star of Ishtar-Venus, the winged disc of the #SunGod Shamash and the crescent of the #MoonGod Sin; the latter is the largest, showing supremity)…"

    🔗 Wikipedia.org/wiki/Nabonidus
    #AncientStone #Babylon #Nabonidus #Moon #Time & #Timelessness

  2. Tombstone Tuesday. There is a field I passed by most of my life Maybe 30 or 40 times a year currently, but probably most days when I was a child. From the road I could see some type of Dolmen in the field. I often thought “I should check that out sometime”. On Saturday I finally did. #Tomb #Tombstone #TombstoneTuesday #AncientStone #Ancestors #Dolmen #PortalTomb #Monument #Cromlech #Ballybrack #Dublin #Ireland #Mastodaoine #BCE #photography #foto