Search results

Results 1 – 20 of 660
Advanced search

Search in namespaces:

There is a page named "Assyrian palace reliefs" on Wikipedia

View (previous 20 | ) (20 | 50 | 100 | 250 | 500)
  • Thumbnail for Assyrian sculpture
    palace storeroom near reliefs, but they came from around the Mediterranean, with relatively few made locally in an Assyrian style. The palace reliefs...
    38 KB (5,147 words) - 16:01, 17 December 2023
  • Thumbnail for Lachish reliefs
    The Lachish reliefs are a set of Assyrian palace reliefs narrating the story of the Assyrian victory over the kingdom of Judah during the siege of Lachish...
    9 KB (963 words) - 02:34, 19 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Lion Hunt of Ashurbanipal
    Lion Hunt of Ashurbanipal (category Assyrian art and architecture)
    Hunt of Ashurbanipal is shown on a famous group of Assyrian palace reliefs from the North Palace of Nineveh that are now displayed in room 10a of the...
    14 KB (1,724 words) - 16:15, 3 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Bucket and cone
    Bucket and cone (category Assyrian art and architecture)
    religion , particularly in art from the Neo-Assyrian Empire (911–605 BCE) and especially Assyrian palace reliefs from this period - sometimes, however, only...
    4 KB (456 words) - 08:35, 11 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Nineveh
    presumably by a ramp. There are also 3,000 metres (9,843 ft) of stone Assyrian palace reliefs, that include pictorial records documenting every construction...
    72 KB (8,635 words) - 06:45, 10 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Ashurnasirpal II
    Ashurnasirpal II (category Neo-Assyrian Empire)
    Crawford, Vaughn E.; et al. (1980). Assyrian reliefs and ivories in the Metropolitan Museum of Art: palace reliefs of Assurnasirpal II and ivory carvings...
    24 KB (2,688 words) - 13:40, 27 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Alabaster
    variety, was used in ancient Egypt and the wider Middle East (except Assyrian palace reliefs), and also in modern times. It is found as either a stalagmitic...
    31 KB (3,383 words) - 20:44, 6 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Neo-Assyrian Empire
    distinguishable in reliefs by distinct headgear. The Neo-Assyrian cavalry (ša pētḫalli) used small horses bred in the northern parts of the Assyrian heartland...
    194 KB (24,924 words) - 20:06, 5 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for British Museum
    in the world with entire suites of rooms panelled in alabaster Assyrian palace reliefs from Nimrud, Nineveh and Khorsabad. The collections represent the...
    227 KB (24,788 words) - 21:16, 7 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Lion hunting
    people. The Lion Hunt of Ashurbanipal, a sequence of Assyrian palace reliefs from the North Palace at Nineveh dating from about 645 BC in the British Museum...
    18 KB (2,204 words) - 07:46, 7 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Assyria
    Assyria (redirect from Assyrian Empire)
    are wall reliefs, carved stone artwork that lined the internal and external walls of temples and palaces. Another well-known form of Neo-Assyrian art are...
    140 KB (17,052 words) - 12:32, 19 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Relief
    art of Ancient Egypt, Assyrian palace reliefs, and other ancient Near Eastern and Asian cultures, a consistent very low relief was commonly used for the...
    33 KB (4,006 words) - 19:06, 14 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Lamassu
    the low-relief schemes running round palace rooms, where winged genie figures are common, but they sometimes appear within narrative reliefs, apparently...
    21 KB (2,149 words) - 12:51, 1 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Architecture of Mesopotamia
    Sharrukin/Khorsabad and Ninuwa/Nineveh, have become famous due to the Assyrian palace reliefs, extensive pictorial and textual narrative programs on their walls...
    39 KB (5,070 words) - 19:30, 27 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Balawat Gates
    Balawat Gates (category Assyrian art and architecture)
    the Neo-Assyrian Empire, comparable to the extensive Assyrian palace reliefs. When the Neo-Assyrian Empire fell in 614-612 BC, Balawat was destroyed. The...
    13 KB (1,650 words) - 12:32, 15 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Tree of life
    apparently an important religious symbol, often attended to in Assyrian palace reliefs by human or eagle-headed winged genies, or the King, and blessed...
    47 KB (5,823 words) - 17:28, 11 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Austen Henry Layard
    Nimrud and of Nineveh, where he uncovered a large proportion of the Assyrian palace reliefs known, and in 1851 the library of Ashurbanipal. Most of his finds...
    25 KB (2,259 words) - 13:07, 25 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Euphrates
    that is limited to the Tigris–Euphrates river system. The Neo-Assyrian palace reliefs from the 1st millennium BCE depict lion and bull hunts in fertile...
    66 KB (7,229 words) - 00:09, 4 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Siege of Lachish
    Bible, Assyrian documents and in the Lachish relief, a well-preserved series of reliefs which once decorated the Assyrian king Sennacherib's palace at Nineveh...
    13 KB (1,388 words) - 23:41, 21 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Kusarikku
    one of the seven mythological apkallu or "sages" shown on neo-Assyrian palace reliefs, and with figurines – to guard against the influence of evil spirits...
    5 KB (526 words) - 18:52, 24 August 2023
View (previous 20 | ) (20 | 50 | 100 | 250 | 500)