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Relief: King and Eunuch Attendant, 883-859 BC; Neo-Assyrian period, reign of Ashurnasirpal II.(GalleryCard: Structure)(Brief article)
; ...Assyrian period, reign of Ashurnasirpal II. Excavated at Nimrud (ancient...Rockefeller Jr., 1932 (32.143.4). Ashurnasirpal II ruled the Assyrian Empire...This relief shows the bearded Ashurnasirpal wearing a conical crown. He...
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; ...headlines in July when it sold a 3,000-year-old stone carving that was made for the palace of the Assyrian king, Ashurnasirpal II. The carving had adorned the school tuck shop for years, and no one had even guessed at its provenance. Before the...
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AN IRAQI GRAVE SITE YIELDS GOLD AND A CURSE
; ...Iraq. The 2,700-year-old tomb in the palace of King Ashurnasirpal II contained more than 55 pounds of gold jewelry, including...to the Mediterranean in the first millennium BC. Ashurnasirpal II was a ruthless but brilliant military leader who...
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School carves out a piece of saleroom history
; ...darts players may have left their mark on the 3,000-year-old bas-relief carved for the palace of the Assyrian king Ashurnasirpal II, which sold for a world record pounds 7.7m yesterday. For years the stone carving was next to the dartboard in the...
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Why I fear for the safety of Iraq's historic monuments
; ...The palace that the ferocious King Ashurnasirpal II built for himself in the ninth century...lives before the wrath of the mighty Ashurnasirpal. The men of the 101st Airborne Division...had chipped away the massive head of Ashurnasirpal from one of the major reliefs in the...
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Details of a spectacular cache of ancient Assyrian jewels and gold funereal artefacts from Iraq, said to rival the Tutankhamun treasures, have been unveiled to the West. (News).
; ...8th century BC, came from four tombs containing what is thought to be the remains of consorts of the Assyrian king Ashurnasirpal II at Nimrud, in northern Iraq. One tomb alone was found to contain gold objects weighing 66lb. The Iraqi academics...
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WINGED LIONS DATE BACK 3,000 YEARS.(NEWS)
; ...Mahmoud Hassan, chief archaeologist. ''Their faces contain cuneiform texts which tell us they belonged to the era of Ashurnasirpal II,'' a famous Assyrian conqueror who ruled from 884 to 860 B.C., he said. The lions, about 9 feet high and 15 feet...
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Archaeologists share sensitive treasures of ancient Royal graves
; ...to be two ninth and eighth century BC tombs of princesses or consorts - possibly of the court of the Assyrian king Ashurnasirpal II, who reigned from 883-859BC. They were found at Nimrud, on the River Tigris in northern Iraq, in 1988 and 1989, the...
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Visual formula and meaning in Neo-Assyrian relief sculpture.
; ...visual formulas sometimes run through entire series of panels, as is the case in Room G of the Northwest Palace of Ashurnasirpal II (883-859 BCE) in Nimrud (Fig. 1). Sometimes such formulas appear individually and discretely, tucked in scenes that...
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The origins of military mines: Part I
; ...antipersonnel mines and boobytraps used during World War II. Early Mining Commercial underground mining first began in...protective walls developed into huge affairs. Under Nebuchadrezzar II (around 600 B.C.) the walls at Babylon increased to a thickness...for battering down town walls during the reign of ...
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