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Diasplaced Elamites having a meal in an encampment. Limestone bas-relief (7th BCE) from the palace of Ashurbanipal in Niniveh,illustrating the campaign against Elam, 645 BCE. Detail of the upper register. Gypseous alabaster, 41 x 78 cm - AO 19913
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Diasplaced Elamites having a meal in an encampment. Limestone bas-relief (7t...

Hairless head of a young man (King Gudea?) Diorite (2150 BCE) From Tello, period of king Gudea. Diorite, 16,2 x 10,7 cm AO 20 216
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Hairless head of a young man (King Gudea?) Diorite (2150 BCE)...

The "Lady with the shawl", probably a princess from the court of Gudea. (2140 BCE) From Tello, ancient Girsu, Mesopotamia (Iraq) Diorite, 17,8 x 11.8 cm AO 295
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The "Lady with the shawl", probably a princess from the court of Gudea....

King Gudea as "the architect with a plan", as temple- builder who holds a plan of the edifice on his knees. An inscription tells of the construction of E-Ninnu, the temple of the god. Fragment of a diorite statue, from Tello. Overall dimension 93 x 41 cm - AO 2
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King Gudea as "the architect with a plan", as temple- builder who holds a plan...

Altar with Hittite inscription, a winged sun disk and the name of the Hittite King Tudhaliya IV. Basalt (Imperial Period, 17th-12th BCE) from Emirgazi (near Konya), Turkey
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Altar with Hittite inscription, a winged sun disk and th...

Warfalowas Urfalla and the weather god Ivriz. Plaster cast of a bas-relief (Late Hittite, 9th BCE) from Ereglisi (near Konya), Turkey.
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Warfalowas Urfalla and the weather god Ivriz. Plaster cast of a bas-re...

Lion with Hittite inscription of King Halparunda III. Basalt (800 BCE, Late Hittite) from Marash, Northern Syria
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Lion with Hittite inscription of King Halparunda III....

Barrekup, King of Aram, worshipping the divine emblem, and an Aramaic inscription describing the construction of the palace. Relief on a basalt orthostat (Late Hittite, 9th BCE) from Sinjirli, Turkey.
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Barrekup, King of Aram, worshipping the divine emblem, and a...

Winged genius. Bas-relief on a marble orthostat (883-859 BCE) from the palace of Assyrian King Ashurnazirpal II at Nimrud-Kalash, Mesopotamia (Iraq)
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Winged genius. Bas-relief on a marble orthostat (8...

Archer on a chariot. Bronze relief (9th BCE). Fragment of a bronze sheet, cover of a wooden door, from the palace of Shalmaneser III at Yeni-Assur (Tell Balawat), Mesopotamia (Iraq).
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Archer on a chariot. Bronze relief (9th BCE). Fragment of a bronze she...

Adadnirari III (810-783 BCE) worshipping divine emblems - and an inscription. Bas-relief on an obelisk (7th BCE) erected for the Assyrian King Adad, from Sabaa, Yemen
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Adadnirari III (810-783 BCE) worshipping divine emblems - and an...

Chamberlain of Tiglath Pileser III worshipping emblems - and inscription. Bas-relief on a limestone stele (7th BCE) from Tell Abta near Niniveh, Mesopotamia (Iraq).
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Chamberlain of Tiglath Pileser III worshipping emblems - an...