Moudhy Al-Rashid (she/her)

@moudhy.bsky.social

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Assyriologist at Wolfson College (Oxford), writer plagued by self-doubt, lover of dead languages. I think we should all be doing what we can to save the planet. My book 😎 https://lnk.to/BetweenTwoRivers

Photo of bluebells in a wood among many young trees
Truly bad photo of bluebells and long grass.
Photo of bluebells up close. Not a very good photo, but the drooping purple flowers look beautiful
Photo of a round-shaped cuneiform tablet with well-preserved lines of text shown from the front, back and sides. The top image of the tablet’s front shows neat cuneiform handwriting while the bottom image of the back shows slightly clunkier handwriting.
Photo of a brown dog lying on his back with paws akimbo and his face squished against a pillow
Photo of a black lab sitting on a sidewalk and looking up at a camera.
Photo of a brown dog with a black nose who is laid down with his eyes open. His face is squished against a light blue couch cushion.
Photo of a brown dog lying down on its tummy on a colourful rug. Her front paws are crossed, and she is looking up at the camera
Photo split into two frames, each of which shows a large dog that looks like a long-haired sheep in profile facing left. The dog stands on a green surface
Photo of a cuneiform tablet with some dark spots on it.
Drawing of a cuneiform tablet that is 17 lines long. At the bottom is the identifier GCBC 766, copyright Raymond P. Dougherty. At the top are the numbers 406. The penultimate line 16 is encased in a box to highlight it
Photo of the back of a cuneiform tablet that is quite spotty with well-preserved text.
Photo of a cuneiform tablet fragment
Photo of a cuneiform tablet shown from the front, back, and various side angles. At the bottom is a watermark for the Yale Babylonian Collection, and to the left of that watermark is a 1cm scale. Based on the scale, the tablet is about 4-5cm wide and 3-4cm tall. In the bottom left corner of the image is a tiny winged creature thumbnail, and along the left side are the letters and numbers "GCBC 766 (YPM BC 034383)"
Photo of a clay sheep figuring shown from the front. The eyes are enormous circles, and the muzzle looks almost like a beak. The artist has made small circles all over the clay figure to represent the wool
Photo of a clay sheep in profile. Only the head, neck, and shoulders are preserved. The artist has made little circles all over the clay animal to show the wool.
Photo of a brown dog lying on an outdoor sofa with her head smushed sideways against the arm. Her eyes are closed and she has a big smile on her face. Behind her are some rosemary bushels with purple flowers on them
Photo of a cuneiform tablet fragment shown from the front and back with some partial view of the sides. At the bottom is an eBL watermark showing that the tablet is about 5 inches wide. (eBL stands for electronic Babylonian Library)
2. to become gloomy, dejected, de-spondent: zimē nisi ina kuri u ni[ssati] iq-tu-re kima glut-ri] the faces of the people became gloomy, as if by smoke, by troubles and woes Iraq 29 55 ND 5406 i 7 (Asb.); Igigi i-gat-tu-ru dalhis JCS 31 86 il 99; kima saknama illakam tenesetum minsu atta ta-qá-at-tu-ur ana madatim mankind will go on as it has been established for them, why are despondent over so many things! You 46 44 ii 7 (OB lit.), cf. a-gat-tur (in broken context, among laments) Rm. 2,273:13'.
Photo of a cuneiform tablet fragment shaped like an irregular diamond preserving about 20 lines of broken text
Photo of three cuneiform tablet fragments shown side by side
A cuneiform tablet drawing of a fragment shaped like an irregular diamond with two lines of text enclosed in a red box to draw attention to it.
Photo of a cuneiform tablet fragment shaped a bit like an irregular diamond. It preserves nearly 20 incomplete lines of text separated by a horizontal ruling
Top Trump administration officials said on Wednesday that they were still investigating whether it was a U.S. airstrike that hit a girls elementary school in Iran on the opening day of the war. The strike was one of the deadliest attacks of the American-Israeli campaign against Iran so far, killing at least 175 people, most of whom were likely children, according to state media and health officials.
Screenshot of a headline and video that shows explosions in a cityscape at night. The headline reads “Israel strikes Beirut, prompting residents to flee”
Screenshot of two posts. The first by elia ayoub reads: “Israel is bombing Iran” The second by Dan Hon reads: “The U.S. is now attacking Iran” with a screenshot of a post by Helene Cooper that reads “A U.S. official said American military strikes on Iran are underway”
A breaking news alert from sky news. The headline reads “Israel launches preventative attack on Iran, defence minister says”
Photo of a piece of art on grass. The art is a painting or drawing with primarily orange , yellow, and red hues. It shows a man in profile facing right (Gilgamesh) with a beard. He is shouting, and a sideways stepped pyramid of cuneiform signs is emerging from his mouth like a speech bubble
Photo of a light brown dog lying on her side against a person’s left leg. On the person’s lap is a computer which is partly visible. Beyond the person’s feet which are resting on an ottoman, is a rug with multi colours
No. 8: MARV 2.22 On this unsealed tablet Saggiu the steward is named as the recipient of (mahir) a series of amounts totalling just over one homer of two kinds of oil on different occasions, over a period of at least 8 months. The oil is either "myrtle oil" (IÀ a-si) or "purified oil" (IÀ ma-su-ú), used apparently interchangeably, and totalled together as just "oil" (IÀ.MES = samnu) at the end of the document. The summary reads as follows: SU.NÍGIN 1 ANSE 3 ½ qa IÀ.MES Sa SU munsGIS.TUKUL-ti-sa-AN-e mu-ra-qi-te tal-pi-tu sa is-tu ITI a-pu-MAN.MES-ni UD.2.KÁM li-me 'MAS-DUMU.ÚS-SUM-na a-di ITI al-la-na-te UD.20.KÁM li-me 'ra-gis-sá-ni a-na tal-pi- ti É'.GAL'"-lim 'sa-gi-ú AGRIG ma-hi-ir "Total: 1 homer 3½ qû oil, in the charge of Tukulti-ja-same, the perfumer, expenditure for the period from the month of Apu-sarrani, 2nd day, eponymate of Ninurta-apla-iddina until the month of Alla-natu, 20th day, eponymate of Ragissanu, for the expenditure of the palace(?), 15 Saggiu, the steward, has received".
Photo of two cuneiform tablet fragments with a ruler at the bottom of the page to show scale, though the numbers are not visible. The first fragment is actually three fragments joined together with a large crack down the centre. It is roughly rectangular in shape in a landscape orientation. The second fragment is a triangular shaped one shown below the larger fragment in the image.
Photo of a stone relief. On the left is a king (Tukulti-Ninurta I) with a beard and long hair standing in profile facing right. he wears a skirt that seems to have feather details on them, and holds a staff in his left hand. He holds up his right hand. In front of him, the same king is shown kneeling. It is meant to be a sort of cartoon that shows him moving from a standing to kneeling position.
Photo of a line drawing of a cuneiform tablet. It is a drawing of three fragments, two large and one small
Photo of a myrtle busy. The leaves are smooth and light green, and the flowers are white with lots of thin filaments sticking out
Photo of the ruins of ancient Assur with a ziggurat rising in the distance and low remains of walls in the foreground. It looks like sunset or sunrise with the soft, orange lighting. Photo by Mahmoud Fakhri
Photo of a book entitled Losing Eden: An Environmental History of the American West by Sara Dant with a foreword by Tom S. Udall. The book is on top of a rug
Photo of ruins of the city of Babylon. Incomplete mud brick structures form a collection of the remains of walls and building. In the distance on the right is a single palm tree. In the distance on the left is more greenery.
Photo of a round shaped cuneiform tablet that’s slightly broken at the bottom left
Phot of a cuneiform tablet fragment shown from the front and sides
Photo of a fragment of a clay tablet showing about 7 incomplete lines of text
Photo of a cuneiform tablet that is slightly round shown from the front back and sides. The image has a Yale Babylonian Collection watermark and gives the identifier YBC 4955. Photo by Klaus Wagensonner
Screenshot of a post by Janel Comeau @VeryBadLlama athlete: so if triathlon is running, biking and swimming, that must mean biathlon is running and biking? coach: [taking out skis and a gun] haha yeah you'd think so
Photo of several stacks of books on a table at a bookshop
Photo of a bookstore display window with several books visible including The Good Society and How We Make It by Kate Pickett The Shortest History of Japan by Lesley Downer Between Two Rivers: Ancient Mesopotamia and the Birth of History by Moudhy Al-Rashid
Photo of a brown dog who is very large lying between someone’s legs who wears black sweatpants. They sit on a sofa and ottoman
Photo of a cuneiform tablet fragment. The tablet is divided into three columns and the one on the left is damaged
Photo of a cuneiform tablet
Photo of a cuneiform tablet fragment shown from the front and sides
Photo of a black stela on the right with a relief at the top of two figures — one seated on the right who is the god of justice Shamash in ancient Mesopotamia, and one standing on the left and facing him. That is king Hammurabi. On the left of the photo is a close up of the stela showing cuneiform signs chiseled into it
Photo of a clay cuneiform tablet with a crack down the centre shown from front and sides
Photo of a cuneiform tablet with a crack down the middle shown from the front and sides
Photo of part of a cuneiform tablet
Photo of palm trees alongside a river with desert in the distance
Photo of a proto-cuneiform clay tablet against a white backdrop. The tablet is divided into several squares which each contain some pictographic signs. On the far left is one that looks like a jug on a stand
Photo of a rectangular cuneiform tablet seen from the front and two sides.