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    Assyrian sculpture is the sculpture of the ancient Assyrian states, especially the Neo-Assyrian Empire of 911 to 612 BC, which was centered around the...
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    Monument or the Statue of Ashurbanipal, is a bronze sculpture by Fred Parhad, an artist of Assyrian descent. It is located in the Civic Center of San Francisco...
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    mouth is marked by a slit or line in the usual conventional form of Assyrian sculpture. The ears are of medium size, chest very deep, and limbs massive,...
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    Winged genie (category Assyrian art and architecture)
    of Assyrian sculpture. Winged genies are usually bearded male figures sporting birds' wings. The Genii are a reappearing trait in ancient Assyrian art...
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    Reade, J. E. (1998b). Assyrian Sculpture. The British Museum Press. ISBN 978-0714121413. Reade, J. E. (2001). "Assyrian King-Lists, the Royal Tombs of...
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    Assyria during the reign of Tiglath-Pileser II as a symbol of power. Assyrian sculpture typically placed prominent pairs of lamassu at entrances in palaces...
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    symbols instead of cuneiform script. The Neo-Assyrian Empire was the fourth and penultimate stage of ancient Assyrian history. Beginning with the accession of...
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    Black Obelisk of Shalmaneser III (category Assyrian art and architecture)
    The Black Obelisk of Shalmaneser III is a black limestone Neo-Assyrian sculpture with many scenes in bas-relief and inscriptions. It comes from Nimrud...
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    Nineveh (category Ancient Assyrian cities)
    Quran, Jonah was a prophet who preached to Nineveh. Large numbers of Assyrian sculptures and other artifacts have been excavated from the ruins of Nineveh...
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    Egyptian Sculpture, view towards the Assyrian Transept Room 4 Room 4 Department of the Middle East The British Museum, Room 6 – Assyrian Sculpture Room 8...
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    Reade, Julian (1983) Assyrian Sculpture Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press pp. 17-21 Gurney, George (1974) Sculpture of a City—Philadelphia's...
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    Stela of Ashurnasirpal II (category Assyrian stelas)
    the sculpture is now part of the British Museum's collection. This stela was found by Layard in 1850 outside the Temple of Ninurta (the Assyrian god of...
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    Lion Hunt of Ashurbanipal (category Assyrian art and architecture)
    The royal Lion Hunt of Ashurbanipal is shown on a famous group of Assyrian palace reliefs from the North Palace of Nineveh that are now displayed in room...
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    description of the architecture of many cultures. In Hittite and Assyrian sculpture, orthostats are often intricately carved. The term may be used more...
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    Statue of Ashurnasirpal II (category Assyrian art and architecture)
    The Statue of Ashurnasirpal II is a rare example of Assyrian sculpture in the round that was found in the mid nineteenth century at the ancient site of...
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    Arthur E. Whatham, The Meaning of the Ring and Rod in Babylonian-Assyrian Sculpture, The Biblical World, Vol. 26, No. 2 (Aug., 1905), pp. 120–123. Scene...
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    "the largest single Assyrian sculpture in existence, which depicts a pair of gods attended by the duplicated figure of the Assyrian king". Langendorfer...
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    Stela of Shamshi-Adad V (category Assyrian stelas)
    British Museum Collection J.E. Reade, Assyrian Sculpture (London, The British Museum Press, 1998) A.K. Grayson, Assyrian Royal Inscriptions (Wiesbaden, O....
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    Art of Mesopotamia (category Assyrian art and architecture)
    Sumerian, Akkadian, Babylonian and Assyrian empires. These empires were later replaced in the Iron Age by the Neo-Assyrian and Neo-Babylonian empires. Widely...
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    Louvre (section Sculptures)
    sponsor the creation of the musée assyrien to host the monumental Assyrian sculpture works brought to Paris by Paul-Émile Botta, in the ground-floor gallery...
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    Gadd, C. J. (1936). The Stones of Assyria: the surviving remains of Assyrian sculpture, their recovery, and their original positions. London: Chatto and...
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  • decoration in relief, a common feature of Hittite architecture and Assyrian sculpture among other styles. In the latter case, orthostats are large thin...
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    Assyrian continuity is the study of continuity between the modern Assyrian people, a recognised Semitic indigenous ethnic, religious, and linguistic minority...
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    Sculpture is the branch of the visual arts that operates in three dimensions. Sculpture is the three-dimensional art work which is physically presented...
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    Diyarbakır (category Assyrian communities in Turkey)
    of the Assyrian sculpture of a mythological winged bull from the town hall, which had been erected by the BDP mayors to commemorate the Assyrian history...
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    Nimrud (category Ancient Assyrian cities)
    (/nɪmˈruːd/; Syriac: ܢܢܡܪܕ Arabic: النمرود) is an ancient Assyrian city (original Assyrian name Kalḫu, biblical name Calah) located in Iraq, 30 kilometres...
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    Assyria". www.lionkingdom.nl. Retrieved 2021-05-07. Reade, Julian, Assyrian Sculpture, pp. 72-79, 1998 (2nd edn.), The British Museum Press, ISBN 9780714121413...
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  • for sculptures. Alberto Giacometti's L'Homme au doigt was auctioned for $141.3 million at Christie's in May 2015, the highest price for any sculpture at...
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  • (Gyps fulvus), the type, as it seems, of the eagle-headed figures of Assyrian sculpture, is most likely referred to in Mich., i, 16, on account of its bare...
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    sculptures have been compared to massive stone sculptures found in Egyptian and Assyrian sculpture art. Wikström was interested in ancient sculpture art...
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