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This is one of a pair of basalt column base (the other is in front of the entrance to the Iraq Museum). It was part of the colonnade supporting the roof of the portico at the entrance to the New Year Festival House (Bit-Hilani) at Khorsabad, in modern-day Nineveh Governorate, Iraq. Circa 710 BCE. Excavated in the 1930s CE. On display in Room X, the Assyrian Gallery, of the Iraq Museum in Baghdad, Republic of Iraq.
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Amin, O. S. M. (2019, April 10). Basalt Column Base from Khorsabad. World History Encyclopedia. https://www.worldhistory.org/image/10398/basalt-column-base-from-khorsabad/
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Amin, Osama Shukir Muhammed. "Basalt Column Base from Khorsabad." World History Encyclopedia, April 10, 2019. https://www.worldhistory.org/image/10398/basalt-column-base-from-khorsabad/.
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Amin, Osama Shukir Muhammed. "Basalt Column Base from Khorsabad." World History Encyclopedia, 10 Apr 2019, https://www.worldhistory.org/image/10398/basalt-column-base-from-khorsabad/.
