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Monique Seefried, consulting curator of Near Eastern Art at the Michael C. Carlos Museum, describes this stone palace wall relief panel of an Assyrian winged deity from the Palace of Ashurnasirpal II (reigned 883-859 BCE) from the ancient city of Nimrud, capital of the Neo-Assyrian Empire, in present-day Iraq. It is north of Baghdad, 21 miles SE of Mosul.
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University, E. (2014, April 03). Assyrian Relief from the Palace of Ashurnasirpal II. World History Encyclopedia. https://www.worldhistory.org/video/138/assyrian-relief-from-the-palace-of-ashurnasirpal-i/
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University, Emory. "Assyrian Relief from the Palace of Ashurnasirpal II." World History Encyclopedia, April 03, 2014. https://www.worldhistory.org/video/138/assyrian-relief-from-the-palace-of-ashurnasirpal-i/.
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University, Emory. "Assyrian Relief from the Palace of Ashurnasirpal II." World History Encyclopedia, 03 Apr 2014, https://www.worldhistory.org/video/138/assyrian-relief-from-the-palace-of-ashurnasirpal-i/.
