Images & Art

Sphinx Ivory Carving

Portion of an ivory panel or ornament carved with the figure of a sphinx. These ivory carvings are probably the work of phoenician artists....

Read More

Battle Between Marduk and Tiamat Clay Tablet

Portion of a tablet inscribed with the legend of the fight between Marduk and Tiamat....

Read More

Stele of Ashurnasirpal

Stele with inscription and figure, sculptured in relief, of Ashur-bani-pal, king of Assyria from B.C. 668 to 626....

Read More

Statue of Ashurnasirpal

Statue of Ashur-nasir-pal, king of Assyria from B.C. 885 to 860. The statue stands upon its original limestone pedestal. The inscription of 8 lines on the breast records the names, titles, and genealogy. This is the only extant perfect Assyrian royal statue in the round. From the small Temple of Adar....

Read More

Babylonian Account of the Flood Clay Tablet

Fragment of a baked clay tablet inscribed with the Babylonian account of the Deluge. Excavated at Nineveh....

Read More

Deciphered Cuneiform with Name Nebuchadnezzar

This translated Cuneiform contains the name and titles of Nebuchadnezzar II, the king of Babylon who took the hebrews out of their land into captivity....

Read More

Drawing of the Palace Mound at Nimrud

Map of Ashurnasirpal's palace at Nimrud, revealing the palace, buildings, tombs, vaulted chambers and the Temple of Nanib or Adar. The walls encompassed an area that was 7000 feet long by 5500 feet wide....

Read More

Assyrian Egyptian Personages Carved Ivory Panel

Small inlaid ivory panel carved with representations of two Egyptian personages seated upon thrones before a cartouche. There was a definite connection between Egypt and Assyria during this time period....

Read More

Mound of Babylon

View of Babil, one of the principal mounds which mark the site of Babylon and contain the ruins of the palaces of the kings of the last Babylonian Empire....

Read More

Foreigners Bringing Gifts (Apes) to King Ashurnasirpal

Bas-relief from a wall of the palace of Ashur-nasir-pal, king of Assyria from B.C. 885 to 860, at Calah (Nimrud), sculptured with figures of foreigners bringing apes as a present to the king....

Read More