{"id":6438,"date":"2020-09-04T10:08:57","date_gmt":"2020-09-04T14:08:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/?p=6438"},"modified":"2020-09-04T10:08:57","modified_gmt":"2020-09-04T14:08:57","slug":"akkadian-dogs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/2020\/09\/04\/akkadian-dogs\/","title":{"rendered":"Akkadian Dogs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/core\/files\/2020\/09\/EYNhuWuWsAA51Vp.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/core\/files\/2020\/09\/EYNhuWuWsAA51Vp.jpg\" alt=\"EYNhuWuWsAA51Vp\" width=\"100%\" height=\"\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6439\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/files\/2020\/09\/EYNhuWuWsAA51Vp.jpg 1029w, https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/files\/2020\/09\/EYNhuWuWsAA51Vp-300x235.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/files\/2020\/09\/EYNhuWuWsAA51Vp-768x601.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/files\/2020\/09\/EYNhuWuWsAA51Vp-1024x801.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1029px) 100vw, 1029px\" \/><\/a>Our first-year students are beginning with the beginning in this first week of the Fall 2020 semester, by reading the oldest book we have written copies of &#8212; the Epic of Gilgamesh. In keeping with the Mesopotamian moment, let us share these marvelous little clay dog figurines from the 7th century BCE. We spotted this image <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Moudhy\" target=\"_blank\">on the Twitter feed<\/a> of Dr. Moudhy Al-Rashid, an Assyriologist, historian of science and post-doctoral researcher at Wolfson College at Oxford.She explains that these were found in a palace at Nineveh, Iraq. The Akkadian cuneiform inscriptions on the pieces give the dogs&#8217; names:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>dan rigiu loud is his bark<\/li>\n<li>munaiku g&#257;ru biter of his foe<\/li>\n<li>mu&#275;&#7779;i lemn&#363;ti expeller of evil<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Possible new names for the BU terrier mascot?<\/p>\n<p>#greatbooks #cuneiform #bostonu #back2bu #gilgamesh #dogsofinstagram<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our first-year students are beginning with the beginning in this first week of the Fall 2020 semester, by reading the oldest book we have written copies of &#8212; the Epic of Gilgamesh. In keeping with the Mesopotamian moment, let us share these marvelous little clay dog figurines from the 7th century BCE. We spotted this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":438,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[477,48628],"tags":[48784,3688],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6438"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/438"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6438"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6438\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6440,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6438\/revisions\/6440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}