Thoughts + Interests

Vase mid-19th Century

W.T. Copeland & Sons, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England

Porcelain (parian)

This famous Assyrian relief shows the episode in which Assurbanipal and his wife celebrate the victory against Elam, sitting almost on an equal footing while drinking a glass of wine (7th BC.)

It comes from the Assurbanipal Palace in Kuyunjik, Nineveh

~ Ziggurat Brick from the Assyrian Capital City of Kalhu.

Date: 859-825 B.C.

Culture: Assyrian

Place of origin: Mesopotamia

Head of a Winged Figure, lithograph illustration of a relief from the Northwest Palace of Ashurnasirpal II (882-859 BCE) at Nimrud

Assyrian relief of a winged genie or Apkallu from room S, panel 17 in the city of Namrud’s Northwest Palace. The relief dates back to 875-860 BCE. Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, ME.

~ Horus Seated on Lotus.

Culture: Egyptian (?), Assyrian (?)

Place of origin: Iraq, Nimrud

Period: Assyrian

Date: 8th century B.C.

Alabaster relief from the Neo-Assyrian period (704-681 BCE) depicting Assyrian soldiers storming a citadel. The relief was found in the now destroyed Southwest Palace of Sennacherib at the Assyrian city of Nineveh. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, NY.

Portraits of Assyrian women with children, Habbaniyah in Iraq, 1950 (HF)