EditorialStatue of Ashurnasirpal II (883-859 BCE), from Nimrud, northern Iraq. It was placed in the temple of Ishtar Sharrat-niphi to remind the goddess Ishtar of the king's piety. Made of magnesite on a pedestal of reddish stone. In his right hand Ashurnsirpal...
EditorialAshur, Edom game domicile, Parallel Title: Assur and Edom inhabited by animals, Signed: G. D. He?mann sculps, copperplate, plate DCXIII, F?ssli, Johann Melchior; Heumann, Georg Daniel (sculps.), 1731, Johann Jakob Scheuchzer: Kupfer-Bibel (...). Augspu...
EditorialMesopotamian Art. Assyrian. Memorial slab about the Assur temple restoration by the Assyrian king Adad-nirari I (1305-1274 BC). it also describes his military exploits. Cast. Dated between 1300-1275 B.C. Cuneiform script. It comes from the Temple of As...
EditorialMesopotamian Art. Assyrian. Memorial slab about the Assur temple restoration by the Assyrian king Adad-nirari I (1305-1274 BC). it also describes his military exploits. Cast. Dated between 1300-1275 B.C. Cuneiform script. It comes from the Temple of As...
EditorialCuneiform tablet case impressed with two cylinder seals, for cuneiform tablet 66.5a: record of a lawsuit, Middle Bronze Age?Old Assyrian Trading Colony, ca. 20th?19th century B.C., Anatolia, probably from K?ltepe (Karum Kanesh), Old Assyrian Trading Co...
EditorialCuneiform tablet case impressed with four cylinder seals in Anatolian and Old Assyrian style, for cuneiform tablet 66.16a: quittance for a loan in silver, Middle Bronze Age?Old Assyrian Trading Colony, ca. 20th?19th century B.C., Anatolia, probably fro...
EditorialMesopotamian Art. Assyrian. Memorial slab about the Assur temple restoration by the Assyrian king Adad-nirari I (1305-1274 BC). it also describes his military exploits. Cast. Dated between 1300-1275 B.C. Cuneiform script. It comes from the Temple of As...
EditorialStatue of Ashurnasirpal II (883-859 BCE), from Nimrud, northern Iraq. It was placed in the temple of Ishtar Sharrat-niphi to remind the goddess Ishtar of the king's piety. Made of magnesite on a pedestal of reddish stone. In his right hand Ashurnsirpal...