Credits and copyright

Copyright statement

The contents of this website, except where noted below, are the copyright of the AMGG project. They are released under a Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike license.

This means that you are free to copy, distribute, transmit and adapt our work without permission, under the following conditions:

You must attribute the work to the AMGG project and (if relevant) the individual author, and also acknowledge the fact that we are funded by the the UK Higher Education Academy [http://www.ahrc.ac.uk/]. We recommend the following wording: "Based on data prepared by Nicole Brisch [or another project member] for the HEA-funded AMGG project" or "Based on data prepared by the HEA-funded AMGG project".
If you alter, transform, or build upon any material in this website, you may distribute the resulting work only under the same or similar license to this one.

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Software Development

The website is based on a design by George MacKerron [http://mackerron.com/home/] for the Whipple Museum [http://www.hps.cam.ac.uk/whipple/], and was created by Eleanor Robson using ESP [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ns/esp/1.0/], Steve Tinney's Oracc port of MacKerron's electrostatic website-building software.

Homepage image credits

Left: Old Babylonian clay plaque, c.1800-1700 BCE, known as the Burney Relief or the "Queen of the Night" showing a naked goddess, perhaps Inana or Ereškigal. British Museum ME 2003-7-18,1 [http://www.britishmuseum.org/explore/highlights/highlight_objects/me/t/queen_of_the_night_relief.aspx], © The British Museum.
Centre: A carved stone wall panel from the Assyrian king Assurnasirpal's palace in the city of Nimrud, c.860 BCE, showing a protective deity. British Museum ME 124586 [http://tiny.cc/nkksb], © The British Museum.
Right: A cuneiform tablet telling the myth of Ištar's Descent to the Underworld, from Assurbanipal's Library in Nineveh, 7th century BCE. British Museum ME K 162 [http://www.britishmuseum.org/explore/highlights/highlight_objects/me/c/cuneiform_ishtars_underworld.aspx], © The British Museum.