Newsweek has a good on-line article entitled “Mess O’Potamian Art” (presumably with a hat tip to The Daily Show). It provides an update on the Baghdad Museum in the wake of the looting that followed the US invasion five years ago. It also briefly discusses a few new sites that have been explored since the invasion, including one that yielded a previously unknown deity named Shuda, who is mentioned on a stone relief. Unfortunately, the article does not say whether the relief was inscribed with Sumerian, Akkadian, or Aramaic, nor does it give the date of the relief.

Hat tip:  Claude Mariottini for noticing the reference to Shuda.

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