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This marble slab was inscribed with an Aramaic script mentioning the name of "Hatra" as the center of the region "Araba". From the 11th temple at Hatra, Ninawa Governorate, Iraq. Parthian period, 1st to 3rd century CE. On display at the Iraq...

The votive or sacred Warka Vase is decorated with three horizontal registers and shows signs of repair in antiquity. The top register depicts a complete scene. Here, a male figure holds what appears to be a belly belt of priest or chieftain...

This is one of a pair of colossal lamassus from the Palace of Sargon II at Khorsabad (in modern-day Nineveh Governorate, Iraq). Both of them are on display at the Assyrian Gallery of the Iraq Museum in Baghdad. During the ransacking of the...

This limestone statue, now headless, was found in the 5th temple, and probably depicts Assur. On the other hand, some scholars thinks this statue is of Za'im Mu'la. It depicts a male figure wearing full military attire and armor (very similar...

The votive or sacred Warka Vase is decorated with three horizontal registers and shows signs of repair in antiquity. The bottom register of the Warka Vase is composed of two horizontal parts. The lower portion depicts naturalistic components...

Stele of a lion-hunt from Uruk, the oldest narrative Mesopotamian sculpture (in relief) and the first documented evidence of lion-hunting in Mesopotamia. It depicts two men hunting lions using a spear and arrows. One man is smaller than the...

Kurba'il statue of Shalmaneser III (r. 858-824 BCE), found in Fort Shalmaneser in 1961 by the British School of Archaeology in Iraq. The statue originally stood in the Temple of Adad at the city of Kurba'il, north of modern-day Mosul...

A young man stands before and skims the votive Vase of Warka, one of the priceless objects in the Iraq Museum and represents one of the earliest surviving narrative art. The man was included in the image for comparison with the Vase's size...

One of a pair of lions which once stood at the gate of the ancient Sumerian city of Eridu (Tell Abu Shahrain) to guard the city's entrance. The lion was carved from black basalt. From Eridu, Southern Mesopotamia, in modern-day Iraq. Mid-3rd...

The cuneiform inscription on this hexagonal clay prism narrates the construction works of a palace at the city of Nimrud by the Neo-Assyrian king Esarhaddon (reigned 680 - 669 BCE). Neo-Assyrian Period, 7th century BCE. From Nimrud, in modern-day...