This carved stone face probably belonged to a head of a sphinx. The Assyrian king Sennacherib ordered several colossal statues to be made in his new palace. Such giant statues were thought to have a supra-natural protective power. From the south-west palace at Nineveh (modern Ninawa Governorate, Iraq), northern Mesopotamia. 700-695 BCE. (The British Museum).
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Amin, O. S. M. (2014, October 17). Face of a Colossal Figure from Nineveh. World History Encyclopedia. https://www.worldhistory.org/image/3169/face-of-a-colossal-figure-from-nineveh/
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