Hotmail
Messenger
My MSN
MSN Directory
 |
Picture | |
from | Encarta |  |
Babylonian Moon God Sin |
||||||
 |
||||||
|
||||||
| Often depicted as a wise old man with a long beard, the moon god Sin was one of the most important Babylonian gods. His main temples were situated at Ur and Harran. This relief from about 2300 bc shows Ur-Nammu, the first king of the third dynasty of Ur, making a sacrifice before Sin. | ||||||
|
||||||
| Corbis | ||||||
|
||||||
|
||||||
| Appears in these articles: | ||||||
|
||||||
| Babylonian Religion; Ur | ||||||
|
||||||
|
||||||
|
Advertisement
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| |
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
© 2008 Microsoft
  |