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Plaster cast of an Assyrian relief representing a royal hunt: detail by diffendale

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Plaster cast of an Assyrian relief representing a royal hunt: detail

From Nineveh/Kuyunjik (see on Pleiades), North Palace of Ashurbanipal, Room C
Neo-Assyrian period, 645-635 BCE

In the collection of the Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli (MANN), donated by Alessandro Castellani to Giuseppe Fiorelli, 1866
Photographed on display in the exhibit "Gli Assiri all'ombra del Vesuvio" ('The Assyrians in the shadow of Vesuvius') at the Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli (MANN), July 3-September 16, 2019.

Plaster cast of relief with urmahlullu (lion-man) with horned crown by diffendale

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Plaster cast of relief with urmahlullu (lion-man) with horned crown

From Nineveh/Kuyunjik (see on Pleiades), North Palace of Ashurbanipal
Neo-Assyrian period, 645-640 BCE

In the collection of the Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli (MANN), donated by Alessandro Castellani to Giuseppe Fiorelli, 1866.
Photographed on display in the exhibit "Gli Assiri all'ombra del Vesuvio" ('The Assyrians in the shadow of Vesuvius') at the Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli (MANN), July 3-September 16, 2019.

Fragment of a Lamassu with Akkadian inscription by diffendale

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Fragment of a Lamassu with Akkadian inscription

From Nineveh/Kuyunjik (see on Pleiades), Southwest Palace of Sennacherib, Court H
Neo-Assyrian period, ca. 694-693 BCE

In the collection of the Musei Vaticani, Museo Gregoriano Etrusco, inv. 15022 or 15024.
Photographed on display in the exhibit "Gli Assiri all'ombra del Vesuvio" ('The Assyrians in the shadow of Vesuvius') at the Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli (MANN), July 3-September 16, 2019.

Fragment of a relief representing Assyrian soldiers in combat with Elamites on the Ulai river by diffendale

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Fragment of a relief representing Assyrian soldiers in combat with Elamites on the Ulai river

From Nineveh/Kuyunjik (see on Pleiades), North Palace of Ashurbanipal, Room I
Neo-Assyrian period, 668-631/627 BCE

In the collection of the Museo di Scultura Antica Giovanni Barracco, inv. 51.
Photographed on display in the exhibit "Gli Assiri all'ombra del Vesuvio" ('The Assyrians in the shadow of Vesuvius') at the Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli (MANN), July 3-September 16, 2019.

Ivory relief panel with scene of cow suckling her calf by diffendale

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Ivory relief panel with scene of cow suckling her calf

From Kalkhu/Kalhu/Nimrud (see on Pleiades)
Neo-Assyrian period, 9th-7th c. BCE

In the collection of the Ashmolean Museum, inv. 1962.602.
Photographed on display in the exhibit "Gli Assiri all'ombra del Vesuvio" ('The Assyrians in the shadow of Vesuvius') at the Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli (MANN), July 3-September 16, 2019.

Plaster casts of Assyrian reliefs representing a royal hunt by diffendale

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Plaster casts of Assyrian reliefs representing a royal hunt

From Nineveh/Kuyunjik (see on Pleiades), North Palace of Ashurbanipal, Room C
Neo-Assyrian period, 645-635 BCE

In the collection of the Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli (MANN), donated by Alessandro Castellani to Giuseppe Fiorelli, 1866
Photographed on display in the exhibit "Gli Assiri all'ombra del Vesuvio" ('The Assyrians in the shadow of Vesuvius') at the Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli (MANN), July 3-September 16, 2019.

Fragment of an Assyrian relief representing Elamite archers by diffendale

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Fragment of an Assyrian relief representing Elamite archers

From Nineveh/Kuyunjik (see on Pleiades), North Palace of Ashurbanipal
Neo-Assyrian period, 668-631/627 BCE

In the collection of the Museo di Scultura Antica Giovanni Barracco, inv. 52
Photographed on display in the exhibit "Gli Assiri all'ombra del Vesuvio" ('The Assyrians in the shadow of Vesuvius') at the Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli (MANN), July 3-September 16, 2019.

Plaster cast of a relief with a court scene of Ashurnasirpal II by diffendale

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Plaster cast of a relief with a court scene of Ashurnasirpal II

The king performs a ritual with attendants and a winged genius
From Kalkhu/Kalhu/Nimrud (see on Pleiades), Northwest Palace of Ashurnasirpal II, Room G
Neo-Assyrian period, 875-870 BCE.

In the collection of the Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli (MANN), gift of Alessandro Castellani to Giuseppe Fiorelli, 1866.
Photographed on display in the exhibit "Gli Assiri all'ombra del Vesuvio" ('The Assyrians in the shadow of Vesuvius') at the Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli (MANN), July 3-September 16, 2019.

Fragment of an Assyrian relief representing Arab tents burnt by Assyrian soldiers by diffendale

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Fragment of an Assyrian relief representing Arab tents burnt by Assyrian soldiers

From Nineveh/Kuyunjik (see on Pleiades), North Palace of Ashurbanipal, Room L
Neo-Assyrian period, 668-631/627 BCE

In the collection of the Musei Vaticani, Museo Gregoriano Etrusco, inv. 14997
Photographed on display in the exhibit "Gli Assiri all'ombra del Vesuvio" ('The Assyrians in the shadow of Vesuvius') at the Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli (MANN), July 3-September 16, 2019.

Fragment of an Assyrian relief representing an Assyrian soldier during the siege of the Elamite city of Bit Bunaki by diffendale

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Fragment of an Assyrian relief representing an Assyrian soldier during the siege of the Elamite city of Bit Bunaki

From Nineveh/Kuyunjik (see on Pleiades), North Palace of Ashurbanipal
Neo-Assyrian period, 668-631/627 BCE

In the collection of the Musei Vaticani, Museo Greogriano Egizio, inv. 14986
Photographed on display in the exhibit "Gli Assiri all'ombra del Vesuvio" ('The Assyrians in the shadow of Vesuvius') at the Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli (MANN), July 3-September 16, 2019.

Neo-Assyrian copper alloy bowl by diffendale

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Neo-Assyrian copper alloy bowl

From Kalkhu/Kalhu/Nimrud (see on Pleiades)
Neo-Assyrian period, 9th-7th c. BCE

In the collection of the British Museum, inv. N.41.
Photographed on display in the exhibit "Gli Assiri all'ombra del Vesuvio" ('The Assyrians in the shadow of Vesuvius') at the Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli (MANN), July 3-September 16, 2019.

Copper pendant in the form of the head of the demon Pazuzu by diffendale

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Copper pendant in the form of the head of the demon Pazuzu

From Kalkhu/Kalhu/Nimrud (see on Pleiades)
Neo-Assyrian period, 9th-7th c. BCE.

In the collection of the Ashmolean Museum, inv. 1951.33.
Photographed on display in the exhibit "Gli Assiri all'ombra del Vesuvio" ('The Assyrians in the shadow of Vesuvius') at the Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli (MANN), July 3-September 16, 2019.

Neo-Assyrian Palace Ware beaker from Arban by diffendale

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Neo-Assyrian Palace Ware beaker from Arban

From Shadikanni/Arban, Syria (see on Pleiades)
Neo-Assyrian period, 7th c. BCE

In the collection of the British Museum, inv. 92885.
Photographed on display in the exhibit "Gli Assiri all'ombra del Vesuvio" ('The Assyrians in the shadow of Vesuvius') at the Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli (MANN), July 3-September 16, 2019.

Fragment of an Assyrian relief representing a row of royal guards by diffendale

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Fragment of an Assyrian relief representing a row of royal guards

From Nineveh/Kuyunjik (see on Pleiades), North Palace of Ashurbanipal
Neo-Assyrian period, 668-631/627 BCE

In the collection of the Museo Civico di Como, inv. 1101.
Photographed on display in the exhibit "Gli Assiri all'ombra del Vesuvio" ('The Assyrians in the shadow of Vesuvius') at the Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli (MANN), July 3-September 16, 2019.

Neo-Assyrian Palace Ware beaker from Nineveh by diffendale

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Neo-Assyrian Palace Ware beaker from Nineveh

From Nineveh/Kuyunjik (see on Pleiades)
Neo-Assyrian period, 9th-7th c. BCE

In the collection of the British Museum, inv. 137259.
Photographed on display in the exhibit "Gli Assiri all'ombra del Vesuvio" ('The Assyrians in the shadow of Vesuvius') at the Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli (MANN), July 3-September 16, 2019.

Gold and silver decoration with a disk, perhaps the headdress of a divine statue by diffendale

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Gold and silver decoration with a disk, perhaps the headdress of a divine statue

From Kalkhu/Kalhu/Nimrud (see on Pleiades)
Neo-Assyrian period, 9th-7th c. BCE

In the collection of the Ashmolean Museum, inv. 1954.733
Photographed on display in the exhibit "Gli Assiri all'ombra del Vesuvio" ('The Assyrians in the shadow of Vesuvius') at the Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli (MANN), July 3-September 16, 2019.

Fragment of Neo-Assyrian tableware by diffendale

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Fragment of Neo-Assyrian tableware

From Kalkhu/Kalhu/Nimrud (see on Pleiades)
Neo-Assyrian period, 8th-7th c. BCE

In the collection of the British Museum, Inv. 1992,0302.292
Photographed on display in the exhibit "Gli Assiri all'ombra del Vesuvio" ('The Assyrians in the shadow of Vesuvius') at the Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli (MANN), July 3-September 16, 2019.

Plaster cast of Assyrian reliefs representing a royal hunt: detail by diffendale

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Plaster cast of Assyrian reliefs representing a royal hunt: detail

From Nineveh/Kuyunjik (see on Pleiades), North Palace of Ashurbanipal, Room C
Neo-Assyrian period, 645-635 BCE

In the collection of the Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli (MANN), donated by Alessandro Castellani to Giuseppe Fiorelli, 1866
Photographed on display in the exhibit "Gli Assiri all'ombra del Vesuvio" ('The Assyrians in the shadow of Vesuvius') at the Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli (MANN), July 3-September 16, 2019.

Fragment of an Assyrian relief of Sargon II (r. 721-705 BCE) by diffendale

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Fragment of an Assyrian relief of Sargon II (r. 721-705 BCE)

From Dar-Sharrukin/Khorsabad (see on Pleiades), Palace of Sargon
Neo-Assyrian period, ca. 717-707 BCE

In the collection of the Musei Reali, Museo di Antichità, Torino, inv. 1396
Photographed on display in the exhibit "Gli Assiri all'ombra del Vesuvio" ('The Assyrians in the shadow of Vesuvius') at the Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli (MANN), July 3-September 16, 2019.

Neo-Assyrian carinated bronze bowl by diffendale

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Neo-Assyrian carinated bronze bowl

From Kalkhu/Kalhu/Nimrud (see on Pleiades)
Neo-Assyrian period, 9th-8th c. BCE

In the collection of the British Museum, inv. 91297
Photographed on display in the exhibit "Gli Assiri all'ombra del Vesuvio" ('The Assyrians in the shadow of Vesuvius') at the Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli (MANN), July 3-September 16, 2019.