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New Mesopotamian Gallery at the Oriental Institute
; ...Mesopotamian Gallery and the Yelda Family Khorsabad Court at the Oriental Institute Museum...project and the Assyrian capital city of Khorsabad. The gallery begins with a visitor center...temple sanctuaries. In the Yelda Family Khorsabad Court, at the far end of the gallery...
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(book review)
; ...judicious use of parallel passages in the Khorsabad annals and the Letter to the Gods of...king in a particular year. Thus, the Khorsabad annals credit the king with a victory...and in the eleventh year in those from Khorsabad. Sargon's ni nth year was one of military...
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Mitchell S. Rothman with Brian Peasnall. Tepe Gawra: The Evolution of a Small, Prehistoric Center in Northern Iraq(University Museum Monograph 112).(Excavations at the Prehistoric Mound of Chogha Bonut, Khuzestan, Iran: Seasons 1976-77, 1977-78 and 1996)(Book Review)
; ...but rather striking high mound, 25km north-east of Mosul, close to the foothills of Kurdistan and the Late Assyrian site of Khorsabad. Indeed Layard, in the nineteenth century, was its first excavator, believing it to be an Assyrian royal tomb but finding...
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Goodbye to landfills, hello to compost
; ...IN IRAQ In the northern Iraqi town of Khorsabad four years ago, looters sawed the massive...Iraq's rapidly disappearing artifacts, the Khorsabad head was recovered and 10 of a dozen...brought under control, the case of the Khorsabad head underscores the dangers confronting...
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The Writing on the Wall
; ...opened at the National Army Museum in London. And just like the graffiti on the gate-statues of King Sargon's fortress at Khorsabad, the examples of graffiti in this exhibition, entitled The Writing on the Wall, are also from Iraq. The two dozen or so photographs...
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Nuove ricerche puniche in Sardegna
; ...iconography of the piece, which is dated to sometime between the fifth and third centuries B.C.E., is most similar to that found at Khorsabad and was probably modeled after it. The precise function of the piece is impossible to ascertain, but Ciafaloni tentatively...
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(book reviews)
; ...eskimo igloo is so small that it needs an auxiliary drawing at a larger scale to make it visible while Sargon's palace at Khorsabad has to be reduced (to scale 1:2500) to squeeze it into this book. Most buildings (although not all appear in section as well...
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French artisan to take 40-ton bull by the wings
; ...between 721 and 705 B.C. and had his palace in what is now Khorsabad, Iraq. The bull is inscribed with a lengthy text in which...monuments, of which the winged bull is one, fell into ruin. Khorsabad was excavated by the French from 1851 to 1855 and by an Oriental...
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I&A.com: Playing the Numbers
; ...various sources, was by King Sargon II of Babylon in the 8th century BCE, when he ordered that the wall around the city of Khorsabad be exactly 16,283 cubits long, because 16,283 was the numerical value of his name in whatever language was spoken on his turf...
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Tracking LOST EMPIRES
; ...for six thousand years; and Uruk, site of the world's earliest surviving ziggurat. Many Iraqi sites such as Assur, Nineveh, Khorsabad, Nimrud, and Hatra in the north and Ur, Uruk, Eridu and Borsippa in the south date from the Sumerian, Assyrian, and Babylonian...
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