This gypsum door-sill was carved as a carpet; there are rosette and lotus flower designs. Neo-Assyrian Period, reign of Ashurbanipal II, 645-635 BCE. From room I, door b or d, the North Palace at Nineveh, Northern Mesopotamia, modern-day Iraq. (The British Museum, London)
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