Assyrian Gallery

Winged Assyrian Bull

Winged, human-headed bull, from the facade of the Palace of King Sargon II, Khorsabad, Late Assyrian Period, c.725 BC (gypsum), One of two alabaster guardian genies called lamassu that assured the foundations of the world and those of the palace of Sargon of Assyria, at Khorsabad. Date: circa 725 BC

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Map of the Roman, Macedonian, Persian and Assyrian Empires

Map of the world showing the boundaries of the Roman, Macedonian, Persian and Assyrian Empires. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Andrea Bernieri from Giulio Ferrario's Ancient and Modern Costumes of all the Peoples of the World, Florence, Italy, 1843. Date:

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ILN cover 1957, Assyrian ivory carving at Nimrud

Front cover of the Illustrated London News, 23rd November 1957. A god or prince plucking the flowering lotus: one of a series of superb ivories found in a hitherto untouched Assyrian palace at Nimrud. The ivory was one of those found in the 1957 excavations at Nimrud by the British School of Archaeology in Iraq, conducted by Professor M. E. L. Mallowan, in a new site named by the excavators Fort Shalmaneser. Date: 1957

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