Mesopotamia

Kudurru (STEL) of King Melishipak I (1186-1172 BC): The king presents his daughter to the goddess Nannaya. The crescent moon represents the god Sin, the Shamash the sun and the star of the goddess Ishtar. Kassite period, taken to Susa in the 12th century BC as war booty...

 

 Votive relief of Dudu, priest of Ningirsu, in the days of King Entemena of Lagash. Oil shale, ca. 2400 BC. Found in Telloh, ancient city of Girsu. A bas-relief.

 Urartian Art

 Cylinder seal and impression: cattle herd at the cowshed. White limestone, Mesopotamia, Uruk Period (4100 BC–3000 BC).

  Bull statuette, bronze inlaid with silver. Early Dynastic III, archaic Mesopotamia.

 Cylinder Seal with Human-Headed Griffin Attacking a Horse, Middle Assyrian between 1400 and 1200 BC

 Cylinder Seal with Scorpion Man Shooting at Winged Creatures Middle Assyrian between 1400 and 1200 BC

 Cylinder seal and clay imprint, representing a mythological scene: Assur attacking a monster is cheered by a goddess. Steatite, Assyria, 9th-8th centuries BC.

 Depiction of Jehu King of Israel giving tribute to King Shalmaneser III of Assyria, on the Black Obelisk of Shalmaneser III from Nimrud (circa 827 BC) in the British Museum (London).

 Cylinder Seal with Scorpion Man Shooting at Winged Creatures Middle Assyrian between 1400 and 1200 BC

 Clay impression of a cylinder seal with monstrous lions and lion-headed eagles, Mesopotamia, Uruk Period (4100 BC–3000 BC).

 Bull-man mastering two man-headed bulls. Gold, Sumer, Archaic Dynasties III (ca. 2500 BCE).

 Relief from the north wall of the Palace of king Sargon II at Dur Sharrukin in Assyria (now Khorsabad in Iraq), 716–713 BC.

Genie with a poppy flower. Relief from the Palace of king Sargon II at Dur Sharrukin in Assyria (now Khorsabad in Iraq), 716–713 BC.

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