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best-known works are the huge lamassu guarding entrance ways, and Assyrian palace reliefs on thin slabs of alabaster, which were originally painted, at least...

ancient Assyrian history into the Early Assyrian (c. 2600–2025 BC), Old Assyrian (c. 2025–1364 BC), Middle Assyrian (c. 1363–912 BC), Neo-Assyrian (911–609...

Job was identified by tradition. Tell Ashtara is mentioned in the Assyrian relief in 730/727 BCE, which is in the British Museum. It is a town where...

symbols instead of cuneiform script. The Neo-Assyrian Empire was the fourth and penultimate stage of ancient Assyrian history. Beginning with the accession of...

Tell el-Amarna in 1350 BC. The relief depicts the Assyrians removing the people from Ashteroth in 730–727 BC. The relief was excavated at Nimrud by Sir...

Assyrian nationalism is a movement of the Assyrian people that advocates for independence or autonomy within the regions they inhabit in northern Iraq...

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...

Assyrian Timber Transportation relief is a well-known wall relief from the palace of Dur-Sharrukin, the Assyrian capital under Sargon II. The reliefs...

The Neo-Assyrian Empire arose in the 10th century BC. Ashurnasirpal II is credited for utilizing sound strategy in his wars of conquest. While aiming to...

used by the armies of the Neo-Assyrian Empire in the 9th century BC, under Ashurnasirpal II (r. 884 BC – 859 BC). Reliefs from his reign, and subsequent...

the Hebrew Bible, Assyrian documents and in the Lachish relief, a well-preserved series of reliefs which once decorated the Assyrian king Sennacherib's...

Neo Assyrian Relief Sculpture". The Art Bulletin. 88 (1): 97. doi:10.1080/00043079.2006.10786279. S2CID 191619263. Collins, Paul (2006). "An Assyrian-Style...

consistent with the Assyrian propaganda "which urges viewers to be both fearful and in awe of Assyrian might". As an innovation for Assyrian relief art, the cycle...

Kurdistan Region of Iraq. The caves contain the Assyrian relief carvings known as the Maltai reliefs. The cave is located seven kilometres south-west...

royal Lion 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...

Assyrian period, Middle Assyrian Empire, and Neo-Assyrian Empire. Modern scholars typically also recognize an Early period preceding the Old Assyrian...

the Assyrian people within which Assyrian civilisation developed, located in their indigenous Upper Mesopotamia. The territory that forms the Assyrian homeland...

impression of a hall in an Assyrian palace from The Monuments of Nineveh by Austen Henry Layard, 1853 A Neo-Assyrian relief of Ashur as a feather robed...

appear in Assyrian and other Mesopotamian reliefs dating from the 10th to 6th century BCE Neo-Assyrian Empire. It is assumed the Assyrian mastiff had...

Assyrian Americans (Syriac: ܣܘܼܖ̈ܵܝܹܐ ܐܲܡܪ̈ܝܼܟܵܝܹܐ) refers to individuals of ethnic Assyrian ancestry born or residing within the United States. Assyrians...