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28-540: [REDACTED] Look up zu in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Zu or ZU may refer to: Arts, entertainment and mythology [ edit ] Fictional elements [ edit ] Zu (mythology) , an Akkadian god Zu, a mountain featured in the films Zu Warriors from the Magic Mountain and The Legend of Zu Zu, a large birdlike monster from

56-541: A crucial seventh century BC inscription had been mistranslated. While none of Nebuchadnezzar 's inscriptions ever mentioned any gardens, Dalley found texts by Sennacherib about a palace he built and a garden alongside that he called a wonder for all people . The texts also described a water screw, pre-dating Archimedes , using a new bronze-casting methodology that raised water all day, and related these to extensive aqueducts and canals that brought water from hills eighty kilometres away. A bas-relief from Nineveh and now in

84-531: A god associated with thunderstorms. Abu was referred to as "Father Pasture", illustrating the connection between rainstorms and the fields growing in Spring. According to Jacobsen, this god was originally envisioned as a huge black thundercloud in the shape of an eagle, and was later depicted with a lion's head to connect it to the roar of thunder. Some depictions of Anzu therefore depict the god alongside goats (which, like thunderclouds, were associated with mountains in

112-423: A human worshiper of Anzu, others have pointed out that it does not fit the usual depiction of Sumerian worshipers, but instead matches similar statues of gods in human form with their more abstract form or their symbols carved onto the base. In Sumerian and Akkadian mythology, Anzû is a divine storm-bird and the personification of the southern wind and the thunder clouds. This demon—half man and half bird—stole

140-605: A voiced consonant in the middle of a compound word, and can never begin a word Zu (cuneiform) , a sign in cuneiform writing Zulu language , ISO 639-2 code:zu People and titles [ edit ] Zu (surname) (祖), a Chinese surname Zu, a nobiliary particle , in German Ziv Kalontarov (born 1997), Israeli swimmer Places [ edit ] Zu, North Khorasan , Iran Zu, Razavi Khorasan , Iran Science and mathematics [ edit ] Scott–Potter set theory , called ZU because it

168-566: Is equivalent to Zermelo set theory with urelements Zu (fish) , a genus of ribbonfish Other uses [ edit ] Ziauddin University Zeppelin University Helios Airways (IATA code ZU) See also [ edit ] Zou (disambiguation) Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Zu . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change

196-404: Is evidence for both readings of the name in both languages, and the issue is confused further by the fact that the prefix 𒀭 ( an ) was often used to distinguish deities or even simply high places. an.zu could therefore mean simply "heavenly eagle". Thorkild Jacobsen proposed that Anzu was an early form of the god Abu , who was also syncretized by the ancients with Ninurta /Ningirsu,

224-536: Is most commonly called The Myth of Anzu . (Full version in Dalley, page 205). An edited version is at Myth of Anzu . Latest editions of the Old Babylonian, Standard Babylonian and Neo-Assyrian (Late Assyrian) versions of the myth are published in the electronic Babylonian Library. Stephanie Dalley Stephanie Mary Dalley FSA ( née Page ; March 1943) is a British Assyriologist and scholar of

252-476: Is principally known in two versions: an Old Babylonian version of the early second millennium [BC], giving the hero as Ningirsu; and 'The Standard Babylonian' version, dating to the first millennium BC, which appears to be the most quoted version, with the hero as Ninurta". However, the Anzu character does not appear as often in some other writings, as noted below. The name of the mythological being usually called Anzû

280-513: The Final Fantasy series Other uses in arts and entertainment [ edit ] Zu (band) , an Italian hardcore/jazz band zu and zun , types of ancient Chinese ritual bronzes Language [ edit ] There are two different kana (Japanese script) letters that are romanized as zu : ず: Su (す) with dakuten (voicing marks) づ: Tsu (つ) with dakuten; in modern standard Japanese primarily used for indicating

308-727: The Ancient Near East . Prior to her retirement, she was a teaching Fellow at the Oriental Institute, Oxford . She is known for her publications of cuneiform texts and her investigation into the Hanging Gardens of Babylon , and her proposal that it was situated in Nineveh , and constructed during Sennacherib 's rule. As a schoolgirl, Stephanie Page worked as a volunteer on archaeological excavations at Verulamium , Cirencester , and Bignor Villa . In 1962, she

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336-667: The British Museum depicts a palace and trees suspended on terraces, which Dalley used as further supporting evidence. Her research confirms the description of later Greek writers that the gardens were, in fact, terraces built up like an amphitheatre around a central pond. She compiled these conclusions into her book The Mystery of the Hanging Garden of Babylon: An Elusive World Wonder Traced , published in 2013. Dalley published in 2009 an archive of some 470 newly found cuneiform texts and deduced that they had originated in

364-716: The Old Testament ( II Kings 18.17–28 and also Isaiah 36.11–13). The besieging Assyrian commander, who would have been a close relative of the King, calls on the people of Jerusalem advising them to abandon their rebellion. "Then Rab-shakeh stood, and cried with a loud voice in the Jews' language, and said 'Hear ye the words of the great king, the King of Assyria'". He could speak in Hebrew because he had learned it at his mother's knee. In several academic articles Dalley has traced

392-761: The Oriental Institute, Oxford University , being appointed Shillito Fellow in Assyriology in 1988. She is an Honorary Senior Research Fellow of Somerville College , a member of Common Room at Wolfson College , and a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries . Dalley took part in archaeological excavations in the Aegean , Iraq , Syria , Jordan and Turkey . She has published extensively, both technical editions of texts from excavations and national museums, and more general books. She has been involved in several television documentaries. Dalley published her own translations of

420-542: The " Tablet of Destinies " from Enlil and hid them on a mountaintop. Anu ordered the other gods to retrieve the tablet, even though they all feared the demon. According to one text, Marduk killed the bird; in another, it died through the arrows of the god Ninurta . Anzu also appears in the story of " Inanna and the Huluppu Tree", which is recorded in the preamble to the Sumerian epic poem Gilgamesh, Enkidu, and

448-694: The Netherworld . Anzu appears in the Sumerian Lugalbanda and the Anzud Bird (also called: The Return of Lugalbanda). The shorter Old Babylonian version was found at Susa. Full version in Myths from Mesopotamia: Creation, The Flood, Gilgamesh, and Others by Stephanie Dalley , page 222 and at The Epic of Anzû , Old Babylonian version from Susa, Tablet II, lines 1-83, read by Claus Wilcke . The longer Late Assyrian version from Nineveh

476-552: The ancient Near East) and leafy boughs. The connection between Anzu and Abu is further reinforced by a statue found in the Tell Asmar Hoard depicting a human figure with large eyes, with an Anzu bird carved on the base. It is likely that this depicts Anzu in his symbolic or earthly form as the Anzu-bird, and in his higher, human-like divine form as Abu. Though some scholars have proposed that the statue actually represents

504-701: The appearance of the name Gilgamesh in the Book of Enoch . One of the seven wonders of the ancient world , the Hanging Gardens of Babylon were not found despite extensive archaeological excavations. Dalley has suggested, based on eighteen years of textual study, that the Garden was built not at Babylon under Nebuchadnezzar , but in Nineveh , the capital of the Assyrians, by Sennacherib , around 2700 years ago. She deciphered Babylonian and Assyrian cuneiform, and reinterpreted later Greek and Roman texts, and determined that

532-463: The blending of the new n with the following d , which was aspirated as dh , a sound which was borrowed into Akkadian as z or s . It has also been argued based on contextual evidence and transliterations on cuneiform learning tablets, that the earliest, Sumerian form of the name was at least sometimes also pronounced Zu, and that Anzu is primarily the Akkadian form of the name. However, there

560-756: The influence of Mesopotamian culture in the Hebrew Old Testament , early Greek epics , and the Arabian Nights . In particular she has studied the transmission of the story of Gilgamesh across the cultures of the Near and Middle East and shown its persistence to the Tale of Buluqiya in the Arabian Nights , examining the evidence for Gilgamesh and Enkidu in the tale, as well as contrasting Akkadian and later Arabic stories. She has also noted

588-487: The jewellery. She concluded that these women, probably mother and daughter as they had been buried together, were Judean princesses, probably relatives of King Hezekiah of Jerusalem , given in diplomatic marriage to the Assyrian Kings. This arrangement sheds a new light on the political relationships between Judah and Assyria at that time. The analysis also offers an explanation for an otherwise obscure passage in

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616-527: The link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Zu&oldid=1258766950 " Categories : Disambiguation pages Place name disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Zu (mythology) Stephanie Dalley , in Myths from Mesopotamia , writes that "the Epic of Anzu

644-575: The main Babylonian myths: Atrahasis , Anzu , The Descent of Ishtar , Gilgamesh , The Epic of Creation , Erra and Ishum . Collected into one volume, this work has made the Babylonian corpus accessible for the first time to the student of general mythology and it is widely used in university teaching. In 1989 the Iraqi Department of Antiquities excavated one of a series of tombs in the ancient Palace of Nimrud . A sarcophagus contained

672-417: The original reading of the cuneiform signs as written (giving the name " im.dugud ") is also valid, and was probably the original pronunciation of the name, with Anzu derived from an early phonetic variant. Similar phonetic changes happened to parallel terms, such as imdugud (meaning "heavy wind") becoming ansuk . Changes like these occurred by evolution of the im to an (a common phonetic change) and

700-414: The skeletons of two women who had been buried with over 26 kg of gold objects, many of them inscribed. The inscriptions identified the women as queens from c 700 BC. Dalley showed that the name Ataliya was of Hebrew origin. The name of the other queen, Yaba could also have been Hebrew, a word possibly meaning Beautiful and equating to another, Assyrian name form Banitu which is also found on

728-643: The years 1966–67, Page was awarded a Fellowship by the British School of Archaeology in Iraq , and she worked at the excavation at Tell al-Rimah as Epigrapher and registrar. The tablets excavated at Tell al-Rimah formed the subject of her PhD thesis and later for a book for general readership, Mari and Karana, two Old Babylonian Cities . In Iraq she met Christopher Dalley, now a Chartered Engineer, whom she later married. Then they had three children. From 1979 to 2007, Dalley taught Akkadian and Sumerian at

756-419: Was actually written in the oldest Sumerian cuneiform texts as 𒀭𒉎𒈪𒄷 ( an.im.mi ; in context, the cuneiform sign 𒄷 , or mušen , is an ideogram for "bird"). In texts of the Old Babylonian period, the name is more often found as 𒀭𒉎𒂂𒄷 an.im.dugud . In 1961, Landsberger argued that this name should be read as "Anzu", and most researchers have followed suit. In 1989, Thorkild Jacobsen noted that

784-508: Was invited by David Oates , a family friend, to an archaeological dig he was directing in Nimrud , northern Iraq. Here she was responsible for cleaning and conserving the discovered ivories. Between 1962 and 1966 she studied Assyriology at Newnham College, Cambridge , part of Cambridge University , and followed it up with a PhD from the School of Oriental and African Studies , London. In

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