The Nimrud Slab, also known as the Calah Orthostat Slab, is the top half of a "summary inscription" of the reign of Adad-nirari III (811 to 783 BC) discovered...

Nimrud (/nɪmˈruːd/; Syriac: ܢܢܡܪܕ Arabic: النمرود) is an ancient Assyrian city (original Assyrian name Kalḫu, biblical name Calah) located in Iraq, 30...

Iran Nimrud Baito (born 1952), politician and minister in the Kurdistan Regional Government Nimrud Slab, also known as the Calah Orthostat Slab, the top...

III made an expedition into the Levant around 803 BCE mentioned in the Nimrud slab, which lists the places he went to, sometimes using the apellative for...

region of "Palashtu" or "Pilistu", beginning with Adad-nirari III in the Nimrud Slab in c. 800 BCE through to a treaty made by Esarhaddon more than a century...

"Palashtu/Palastu" or "Pilistu," beginning with Adad-nirari III in the Nimrud Slab in c. 800 BCE through to an Esarhaddon treaty more than a century later...

brutality, using enslaved captives to build a new Assyrian capital at Kalhu (Nimrud) in Mesopotamia where he built many impressive monuments.[citation needed]...

BCE mar Hu-um-ri-i "of the people of the land of Omri" Adad-nirari III Nimrud Slab 803 BCE KUR Bīt-Hu-um-ri-i "the land of the house of Omri" Tiglath-Pileser...

Queens' Tombs at Nimrud are a set of four tombs discovered by Muzahim Hussein at the site of what was once the ancient Assyrian city of Nimrud. Once the capital...

Sa-me-ri-na "city of Samaria" III R 9.3 50, refers to "Menahem the Samarian" Nimrud Tablet III R 10.2 28–29, refers to the overthrown of Pekah by Hoshea. one...

to excavate there. On his first day digging at Nimrud, with only six workers in November 1845, slabs were found, initially only with inscriptions, but...

Tukulti-Ninurta II's son Ashurnasirpal II to Nimrud in 879 BC. An architectural detail separating Nimrud and the other Neo-Assyrian capitals from Assur...

(r. 883-859), who had erected other lion hunt reliefs in his palace at Nimrud some 200 years before, boasted in inscriptions of about 865 BC that "the...

great detail in his "annals", written on sculpted stone slabs decorating his palace in Nimrud, these are poorly preserved, meaning that for several of...

most notable, are a group of sixteen bronze Mesopotamian weights found at Nimrud in the late 1840s and now in the British Museum. They are considered to...

from Nimrud and reliefs from the palace of Tiglath-Pileser III Room 7 – Reliefs from the North-west palace of Ashurnasirpal II, Nimrud Room 89 – Nimrud and...

quarries at Balatai, then lifted 65 feet (20 m) once they arrived at the site. Nimrud, Iraq. Largest colossal bull, 30 tons. Maeshowe Orkney Islands, Scotland...

neglected in favor of seemingly more promising sites such as Nineveh or Nimrud. This situation changed in April 1843, when the French Consul General at...

the Shiwazor river. It is about 25 kilometers from the ancient site of Nimrud. Remains at the site date mainly to the Hurrian, Middle Assyrian, Neo-Assyrian...

Neo-Assyrian inscription of the Black Obelisk of Shalmaneser III, found at Nimrud, gives it in the Late Assyrian forms Parsua and Parsumaš as a region and...

Uratami. His name also appears in inscriptions on votive offerings found in Nimrud. King Zakkur is known as the ruler of Hamath around 785 BC. List of Neo-Hittite...

Hieroglyphic Luwian and Phoenician the Assyrian lion weights (8th century BCE; Nimrud, Iraq) in Akkadian (Assyrian dialect, using cuneiform script) and Aramaic...

named after its discoverer Hormuzd Rassam, was found on the citadel of Nimrud (ancient Kalhu). It was erected by Ashurnasirpal II, though only survives...

that either Resen or Calah is "the great city". The ruins of Kuyunjiq, Nimrud, Karamlesh and Khorsabad form the four corners of an irregular quadrilateral...

each other, and that in an inscription of this same king [Shalmaneser]'s Nimrud obelisk appears Jehu, son of Omri, and commemorates the descendant Hazael...

Babylonian period. Assyrian palaces of the Iron Age, especially at Kalhu/Nimrud, Dur Sharrukin/Khorsabad and Ninuwa/Nineveh, have become famous due to the...

the relief came to be there. It had been brought back from the site of Nimrud in northern Mesopotamia (Iraq) by Sir Austen Henry Layard along with other...

piece from Nimrud, 9th-7th centuries BC, ivory, Iraq Museum, Baghdad Assyrian palmettes of different types on a carved ivory piece from Nimrud, 9th-7th...

of the Nablus District in Filastin. The Jews say that it was here that Nimrud (Nimrod) ibn Ka´an threw Abraham into the fire; the learned, however, say...

written on wax boards. One example from the 8th century BC was found at Nimrud. The wax contained toxic amounts of arsenic. It was used to record laws...