Illustration
Detail of a large wall panel of vibrant glazed bricks once placed above the entrance to a vast room (T3) next to Shalmaneser III's throne room. The whole panel is composed of about 300 bricks and is 4 meters in length; this detail at the center depicts two rampant bulls around a sacred tree. Fort Shalmaneser in Nimrud, modern-day Nineveh Governorate, Iraq, reign of Shalmaneser III, 858-824 BCE.
The Iraq Museum, Baghdad.
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