Nimrud - Assyrian Sculptures and Reliefs British Museum

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1. Colossal statue of a lion, about 883 - 859 BC ( "The fifth leg is an artistic convention to enable the figure to be seen either from the side, walking, or from the front, standing." from the British museum documentation )
2. Attendant God, about 810- 800 BC
3. The black obelsik of Shalmaneser
4. Kurkh Stela, 858-824 BC
5.- 6. The capture of Astartu and the king in his chariot, about 730-724 BC
6.-7.-8.-9. King Tiglath - pileser III, about 728 BC
10. God and Monster, about 865-860 BC
"Much of The British Museum's Mesopotamian collections, including the material from Nimrud, was brought to England by Austen Henry Layard (1817-1894)"
Layard publicised his discoveries in "Nineveh and its Remainds (1849) and " Discoveries in the Ruines of Ninevah and Babylon (1853). These aroused great public interest and many Assyrians finds were displayed at the Great Exhibition in London in 1851." ( from the British museum publication )

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