A pair of human-headed and winged-bulls (lamassu), stood on either side of a gate at one of the citadel walls at Khorsabad. Two human-headed and winged protective spirits or genies stand behind the bulls; those divine figures are about to anoint with a cone and magical fluid from a bucket. The objective of placing these lamassus and genies was to keep evil from entering. Carved gypsum. Neo-Assyrian Period, reign of Sargon II, 710-705 BCE. From Gate B at Khorsabad, Northern Mesopotamia, modern-day Iraq. (The British Museum, London)
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