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Facade of Inanna Temple from Uruk at the Iraq Museum
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Facade of Inanna Temple from Uruk at the Iraq Museum

This is part of the facade of the temple of goddess Inanna at Uruk (modern-day Warka, southern Iraq) and is made of bricks. There are standing male and female deities in alternating niches. Both hold a vase, pouring water in double streams...
Stele of Dadusha at the Iraq Museum (detail)
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Stele of Dadusha at the Iraq Museum (detail)

This detail shows the upper register of the stele of Dadusha. The stele is an elongated stone monument which originally stood at the Temple of Adad at Eshnunna. The front side is carved with four registers while the narrow sides were inscribed...
Assyrian Eunuch from Khorsabad at the Iraq Museum
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Assyrian Eunuch from Khorsabad at the Iraq Museum

This image shows a detail of an almost-3-meter high alabaster bas-relief from the Palace of the Assyrian king Sargon II at Khorsabad (in modern-day Nineveh Governorate, Iraq). This is an Assyrian eunuch, holding a cup; its bottom is in the...
Lamassu from Khorsabad at the Iraq Museum
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Lamassu from Khorsabad at the Iraq Museum

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...
Ivory Statue from Nimrud at the Iraq Museum
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Ivory Statue from Nimrud at the Iraq Museum

This carved ivory statue was made of different ivory pieces, which were joined together. The legs are now missing. It depicts an adult Assyrian beardless male figure. He stands in a gesture of worship. It was found (by an Iraqi team in the...
Shanidar 1 at the Iraq Museum
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Shanidar 1 at the Iraq Museum

The skeletal remains of a Neanderthal corpse, which was found inside the Paleolithic cave of Shanidar, Erbil Governorate, Iraqi Kurdistan. If you zoom in the image on the right clavicular bone, someone wrote, using a blue pen, "Shanidar I"...
A Pair of Lions from Tell Harmal at the Iraq Museum
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A Pair of Lions from Tell Harmal at the Iraq Museum

Two terracotta lions found at the entrance to the Dagan Temple at Tell Harmal (ancient Shaduppum), in the eastern outskirt of Baghdad, Old Babylonian period, c. 1800 BCE. The temple was a typical Old-Babylonian one, with a short staircase...
Marble Head, Iraq
Image by Mary Harrsch (Photographed at the the Univ. of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology)

Marble Head, Iraq

A marble head of a figurine from Iraq, 3rd Millennium BCE. (University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology).
Naram-Sin Rock Relief, Sulaimaniya, Iraq
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Naram-Sin Rock Relief, Sulaimaniya, Iraq

A rock relief depicting the victory of the Akkadian king Naram Sin after defeating Lulubis, tribes who came from the Zagros mountains west of Iran. The relief was made on the surface of a mountain cliff, modern Qopi Qoshk, Qaradagh's mountains...
Mt. Darbandi Bilula's Akkadian Rock Relief, Mesopotamia, Iraq
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Mt. Darbandi Bilula's Akkadian Rock Relief, Mesopotamia, Iraq

This rock relief dates back to the Akkadian era. It lies on the cliff of Mt. Darbadi Bilula, Hori and Shekhan area, Sulaimaniya, near the Iranian border, Iraq. Circa 2100 BCE. It features a victorious man with two captives before him; one...
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