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Lamassu at the Iraq Museum, Baghdad.. The goddess Lama appears initially as a mediating goddess who precedes the orans and presents them to the deities. [3] The protective deity is clearly labelled as Lam(m)a in a Kassite stele unearthed at Uruk, in the temple of Ishtar, goddess to which she had been dedicated by king Nazi-Maruttash (1307–1282 BC). [9]
On 8 March 2015 the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant reportedly started the plunder and demolition of Dur-Sharrukin, according to the Kurdish official from Mosul Saeed Mamuzini. [2] The Iraqi Tourism and Antiquities Ministry launched the related investigation on the same day. [2] Only one looting tunnel has been found. [3]
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From the Royal Palace at Khorsabad, Iraq. Circa 710 BCE. On display at the Assyrian Gallery of the Iraq Museum in Baghdad, Iraq. Date: ... Dur-Sharrukin; Metadata.
Assyrian palaces of the Iron Age, especially at Kalhu/Nimrud, Dur Sharrukin/Khorsabad and Ninuwa/Nineveh, have become famous due to the Assyrian palace reliefs, extensive pictorial and textual narrative programs on their walls, all carved on stone slabs known as orthostats. These pictorial programs incorporated either cultic scenes or the ...
A giant lamassu from the royal palace of the Neo-Assyrian king Sargon II (r. 722–705 BC) at Dur-Sharrukin The history of the Assyrians encompasses nearly five millennia, covering the history of the ancient Mesopotamian civilization of Assyria, including its territory, culture and people, as well as the later history of the Assyrian people after the fall of the Neo-Assyrian Empire in 609 BC.
Head of a bull that once guarded the entrance to the Hundred-Column Hall in Persepolis A lamassu from the palace of Sargon II at Dur-Sharrukin The head of this Sumerian female was excavated at Khafajah (4th season) by the Oriental Institute, now in the Sulaymaniyah Museum, Iraqi Kurdistan
The reliefs at the Louvre. The Assyrian Timber Transportation relief is a well-known wall relief from the palace of Dur-Sharrukin, the Assyrian capital under Sargon II.The reliefs are held in the Louvre, having been excavated in 1844 by Paul-Émile Botta.