The Babylonian Dynasty was a very large empire, one of the earliest civilizations that was both well-developed and full of rich culture. There are many artifacts to Babylon’s name, and in this blog post, we’ll be discussing those historically significant to the Babylonian Dynasty. First up, is the Cuneiform tablet: a-she-er gi-ta, balag to Innin/Ishtar (2nd–1st century BCE). It is relics of a tablet that was made to record part of a balag, or a lamenting song that was accompanied by a stringed instrument. This one is written in Sumerian, with many Akkadian translations also inscribed beside it. This tablet contains a lament written from the perspective of Inna, a Sumerian “goddess of fertility”. It speaks about the destruction of her cities, and the tablet presents a long-lived literary tradition by the Temple scribes. This is significant because it speaks of the transformation and continuation of temple scribes in Mesopotamian societ...