EditorialThe 'Garden Party' relief from the North Palace of Ashurbanipal (Room S) 645/-635 Length: 58.42cm; Width: 139.70cm; Depth: 15.24cm. British Museum Period/culture: Neo-Assyrian Material: gypsum.
EditorialFurniture plaque: deer, Middle Bronze Age?Old Assyrian Trading Colony, ca. 18th century B.C., Anatolia, probably from Acemh?y?k, Old Assyrian Trading Colony, Ivory (hippopotamus), 1.5 x 2.5 x 1.44 in. (3.81 x 6.35 x 3.66 cm), Ivory/Bone-Reliefs, This p...
EditorialFurniture plaque: wing of a hawk, Middle Bronze Age?Old Assyrian Trading Colony, ca. 18th century B.C., Anatolia, probably from Acemh?y?k, Old Assyrian Trading Colony, Ivory (hippopotamus), 4 3/8 x 2 1/4 x 3 13/16 in. (11.1 x 5.7 x 9.7 cm), Ivory/Bone-...
EditorialThe Taylor Prism. The Sennacherib Prism. Library of Ashurbanipal. Hexagonal clay prism foundation record list campaigns of Sennacherib until the start f his final war againts Babylon, and includes a discription of the tribute received from Hezekiah, Ki...
EditorialMesopotamian art. Neo-Assyrian. Relief panels depicting two protective winged genius. Dated between 883-859 BC. They come from the Palace of Ashurnasirpal II at Nimrud. Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York. United States.
EditorialMesopotamian art. Neo-Assyrian. Relief panels depicting two protective winged genius. Detail. Hand. Dated between 883-859 BC. They come from the Palace of Ashurnasirpal II at Nimrud. Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York. United States.
EditorialThe Assyrian camp before the Jewish fortified camp of Lachish (701 BCE). Part of a relief from the palace of King Sennacherib in Niniveh, Mesopotamia (Iraq). H: 165 cm.
EditorialSennacherib's prism (691 BCE), describing the third campaign of the king to reassert Assyrian hegemony over Syria and Canaan. It mentions among others Hezekiah, King of Judah.
EditorialThe walls of the fortress Lachish, Israel, important royal city, guarding the road from the coast to Jerusa-lem. Lachish was taken and destroyed by Assyrian King Sennacherib in 701 BCE and again destroyed by Nebu-chadnezzar II, King of Babylon, in 598 ...
EditorialThe ancient city of Ashdod, Israel. Philistine houses. Black line are ashes of the destruction by fire. (City conquered by Assyrian King Sargon II in 710 BCE).
EditorialCylinder seal and imprint, Assyrian period. A hero with sickle-like weapon (harpe), fighting a griffin; another figure carrying a dead moufflon and hare. Cornelian, H: 3,3 cm AO 9040.
EditorialCappadocian text, letter sent from Assur by Assur-idi to his son Assur na'da, who is on his way to Cappadocia. From Anatolia, period of the Assyrian trading posts, early 2nd mill. BCE Clay, 7,5 x 5 cm AO 7067.
EditorialKing Ashurbanipal's campaign against Elam (645 BCE). Deportees (the men in chains) and women with children led into captivity by Assyrian soldiers. From the palace of King Ashurbanipal in Niniveh. Gypseous alabaster relief. AO 19907.
EditorialAssyrian warriors with maces. Bas-relief on an orthostat showing different branches of the Assyrian army. Period of Tiglat Pileser III (744-727 BCE) from a doorway at Hadatu (Arslan Tash), Northern Syria.