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  2. Complaint tablet to Ea-nāṣir - Wikipedia

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    The complaint tablet to Ea-nāṣir (UET V 81) [1] is a clay tablet that was sent to the ancient city-state Ur, written c. 1750 BCE.The tablet, measuring 11.6 cm high and 5 cm wide, documents a transaction in which Ea-nāṣir, [a] a trader, allegedly sold sub-standard copper to a customer named Nanni.

  3. The City of Brass (novel) - Wikipedia

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    The novel was listed in Best Books of the Year by multiple media outlets, such as Library Journal, Vulture.com, The Verge and SyfyWire. [citation needed] In a review in The New York Times, columnist Suzanne Joinson says "it's clear that Chakraborty has great fun alluding to these tales," and continues "most enjoyable is the gusto with which everything is thrown into her story, from massacres ...

  4. Chalkydri - Wikipedia

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    [1] [2] In the narrative, chalkydri dwell near the Sun and ran its course around the Earth with it bringing heat and dew to the Earth. The chalkydri and phoenixes are described as creatures 900 measures in size with the head of a crocodile and the feet and tail like that of a lion, each having twelve wings, and are empurpled like the color of ...

  5. Brazen head - Wikipedia

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    These books were known to medieval Islamic science, and reappeared in Europe during the 12th- and 13th-century Renaissance. The talking "Skull of Balsamo" was a mechanical illusion of the Viennese magician Joseffy. The skull was made of painted copper inset with real human teeth, answering questions by turning or clicking its lower jaw. [23]

  6. Empusa - Wikipedia

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    Empusa or Empousa (/ ɛ m ˈ p j uː s ə /; [1] Ancient Greek: Ἔμπουσα; plural: Ἔμπουσαι Empusai) is a shape-shifting female being in Greek mythology, said to possess a single leg of copper, commanded by Hecate, whose precise nature is obscure. [2]

  7. Iron in folklore - Wikipedia

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    A horseshoe wind chime, used as a good luck charm. Iron has a long and varied tradition in the mythology and folklore of the world.. While iron is now the name of a chemical element, the traditional meaning of the word "iron" is what is now called wrought iron.

  8. Historical Atlas of World Mythology - Wikipedia

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    The Historical Atlas of World Mythology is a multi-volume series of books by Joseph Campbell that traces developments in humankind's mythological symbols and stories from pre-history forward. Campbell is perhaps best known as a comparativist who focused on universal themes and motifs in human culture.

  9. Dawn, Midnight and Twilight - Wikipedia

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    Dawn fashions a strong rope from the bark of trees and descends the hole, arriving at three palaces, of copper, silver and gold. Inside each palace, one of the kidnapped princesses and a many-headed serpent that guards her. Dawn kills each of the evil serpents, rescues the princesses and lifts them through the rope to the upper world.