Tiāmat through the eyes of sculptors, painters, and craftsmen across the ages
Marduk and the Dragon — Marduk, chief god of Babylon, hurls thunderbolts against Tiamat, the dragon of primeval chaos. Art: Prof. Charles F. Horne, Sacred Books of the East — Babylonia & Assyria (1907). Public domain via Wikimedia Commons.
Enuma Elish Tablet from Nineveh — 7th-century BCE cuneiform fragment (K.3473) from the Library of Ashurbanipal, preserving the Babylonian Epic of Creation in which Marduk defeats Tiamat. Photo: Zunkir. CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons.
Enuma Elish Tablet from the Ashmolean — Cuneiform fragment AN 1926.373 in the Ashmolean Museum, another witness to the Babylonian creation epic that recounts Tiamat's defeat. Photo: Zunkir. CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons.
