Clay model of sheep’s liver

INTRODUCTION
- Man and the stars
SECTION I
- The dawn of astronomy: Mesopotamia, Egypt and the Biblical Cosmos
SECTION II
- The cosmos becomes a sphere
SECTION III
- The geometry of the cosmos
SECTION IV
- The skies of Islam
SECTION V
- Evangelisation of the cosmos
SECTION VI
- The Renaissance of Astronomy
SECTION VII
- Galileo: the cosmos through the telescope
SECTION VIII
- From Galileo to Newton

Tablet with the text of the "Enuma elish" poem

Tablet with letter to Assyrian King Esarhaddon

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Clay model of sheep's liver, Babylon, middle of 1st millennium B.C.
London, British Museum, inv. BM 50494

The model bears the names of the various parts of the organ and their significance in interpreting omens. The parts are marked "right" and "left". "Right" is usually favourable and "left" unfavourable. With the help of this model, the seer could discover what was being foretold by the liver of a sacrificed sheep.