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Black Obelisk of Shalmaneser III in the British Museum.Limestone stela of Ashurnasirpal II , 879 BCPlan of the Northwest Palace of Ashurnasirpal II at NimrudAn overall view of the Northwest Palace in the ancient city of KalhuMona Lisa of Nimrud

Location:

  • Iraq, Qaryat an Nu‘mānīyah
  • geo:36.098045,43.328583
  • Location ± 5-25 m.

Period or year:

  • -1250~ / unknown

Class:

  • City
  • visible

Annotations

  1. Austen Henry Layard (1817-1894), Nineveh and Its Remains, John Murray, 1849

  2. Austen Henry Layard, A Popular Account of Discoveries at Nineveh, London: John Murray 1953

  3. M E L Mallowan, Nimrud and Its Remains, Collins; First Edition edition, London 1966 -  https://www.academia.edu

  4. Bienkowski P., Millard A. (ed.), Dictionary of the Ancient Near East, British Museum Press, London 2000, sv Nimrud, s. 212-213.
  5. Simone Mühl, Nimrud under attack. A short analysis of recent destructions at Nimrud - https://www.academia.edu/11953088

Nearby

Black Obelisk of Shalmaneser III

Neo-Assyrian bas-relief sculpture from Kalhu [Nimrud]commemorating the deeds of King Salmanassar III.

Nimrud Slab - Calah Orthostat Slab

Akkadian cuneiform inscription ca 800 BC

Citadel of Nimrud

Nimrud - Kalhu - citadel


This object was added by René Voorburg on 2012-12-18. Last update by Jona Lendering on 2020-08-13. Persistent URI: http://vici.org/vici/11263 . Download as RDF/XML, GeoJSON, KML.
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