Nimrud (/nɪmˈruːd/; Syriac: ܢܢܡܪܕ Arabic: النمرود) is an ancient Assyrian city (original Assyrian name Kalḫu, biblical name Calah) located in Iraq, 30...
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Nimrud is an ancient city in modern Iraq. Nimrud may also refer to: Nimrud, Iran, a village in Bezenjan Rural District, in the Central District of Baft...
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The Nimrud lens, also called Layard lens, is an 8th-century BC piece of rock crystal which was unearthed in 1850 by Austen Henry Layard at the Assyrian...
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Ashurnasirpal II (section Nimrud reliefs)
brutality, using enslaved captives to build a new Assyrian capital at Kalhu (Nimrud) in Mesopotamia where he built many impressive monuments.[citation needed]...
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The Nimrud Letters are an archive of 244 Neo-Assyrian and Neo-Babylonian cuneiform letters found at Nimrud in 1952 during the excavations led by Max Mallowan...
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Nimrud Baito (born 1952 in Dohuk) was the Minister of Tourism in the Kurdistan Regional Government cabinet from 2006-2009. An ethnic Assyrian, Nimrud...
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Borsippa (redirect from Birs Nimrud)
(Sumerian: BAD.SI.(A).AB.BAKI; Akkadian: Barsip and Til-Barsip) or Birs Nimrud (having been identified with Nimrod) is an archeological site in Babil Governorate...
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The Nimrud ivories are a large group of small carved ivory plaques and figures dating from the 9th to the 7th centuries BC that were excavated from the...
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Max Mallowan (category Nimrud)
directed the resumption of its work at Nimrud (previously excavated by A. H. Layard), which he published in Nimrud and its Remains (2 volumes, 1966). Mallowan...
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Mona Lisa of Nimrud refers to a carved ivory piece of art discovered in the city of Nimrud in a campaign of excavation from 1949 to 1963, led by Sir Max...
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inscriptions in both cuneiform and Phoenician characters, were discovered at Nimrud. The Nimrud ivories, an important group of small plaques which decorated furniture...
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first assignment from director Max Mallowan was to build a "dig house" at Nimrud, which she did and maintained for many years. She was typically the only...
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"An Introduction to the Nimrud Tombs". New Light on Nimrud: Proceedings of the Nimrud Conference 11th–13th March 2002. Nimrud Conference. pp. 81–82. OCLC 276334503...
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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...
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to the 1989 discovery of a stone sarcophagus among the Queens' tombs at Nimrud which contained objects inscribed with the names of all three women. The...
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Nimrud (Persian: نيمرود, also Romanized as Nīmrūd; also known as Nīmrūd-e Maḩmūdī) is a village in Bezenjan Rural District, in the Central District of...
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Phoenician metal bowls (section Nimrud bowls)
discovered by Austen Henry Layard in 1849 in the palace of Ashurnasirpal II at Nimrud. The discovery of these bowls began not just the known corpus of Phoenician...
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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...
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the more centrally located Kalhu (later known as Calah in the Bible and Nimrud to the Medieval Arabs) The empire grew even more under Ashurnasirpal II's...
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Esarhaddon, from Nimrud, Iraq, seventh century BC, the British Museum Lamassu from the Throne Room (Room B) of the North-West Palace at Nimrud, Iraq, ninth...
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Battle of Qarqar. He had built a palace at Kalhu (Biblical Calah, modern Nimrud), and left several editions of the royal annals recording his military campaigns...
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Nineveh Governorate, Iraq. It is located near the ruins of the city of Nimrud in the Al-Hamdaniya District in the Nineveh Plains. Numaniyah came under...
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from Nimrud & reliefs from the palace of Tiglath-Pileser III Room 7 – Reliefs from the North-west palace of Ashurnasirpal II, Nimrud Room 89 – Nimrud & Nineveh...
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Limestone wall relief depicting an Assyrian royal attendant, a eunuch. From the Central Palace at Nimrud, Iraq, 744–727 BCE. Ancient Orient Museum, Istanbul....
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880 BC—Ashurnasirpal moves the Assyrian royal capital to Kalhu (modern Nimrud, Iraq). Human-headed winged lion (lamassu) gateway supports from the palace...
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Black Obelisk of Shalmaneser III (category Nimrud)
sculpture with many scenes in bas-relief and inscriptions. It comes from Nimrud (ancient Kalhu), in northern Iraq, and commemorates the deeds of King Shalmaneser...
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but they do little to indicate how developed the state actually was. The Nimrud Tablet K.3751, dated c. 733 BCE, is the earliest known record of the name...
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invasion of Iraq. Assur lies 65 kilometres (40 mi) south of the site of Nimrud and 100 km (60 mi) south of Nineveh. Exploration of the site of Assur began...
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Issachar) Bochim Byblos – Phoenician state Beersheba Betshean Cabul Calah/Kalhu/Nimrud – Assyrian city Calneh – Assyrian city Cana – Galilee Canaan – Region on...
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panels of Nelson's Column, Frieze of Parnassus Smaller-scale reliefs: Ivory: Nimrud ivories from much of the Near East, Late Antique Consular diptychs, the...
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