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Human-headed winged bulls from Sargon II's palace in Dur-Sharrukin

Human-headed winged bulls from Sargon II's palace in Dur-Sharrukin, modern Khorsabad. In art, Lamassu were depicted with bodies of either winged bulls or lions and heads of human males. Dur-Sharrukin (Fortress of Sargon?), present day Khorsabad, was the Assyrian capital in the time of Sargon II of Assyria. Khorsabad is a village in northern Iraq, northeast of Mosul. The great city was entirely built in the decade preceding 706 BC.
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Title: Human-headed winged bulls from Sargon II's palace in Dur-Sharrukin
Caption: Human-headed winged bulls from Sargon II's palace in Dur-Sharrukin, modern Khorsabad. In art, Lamassu were depicted with bodies of either winged bulls or lions and heads of human males. Dur-Sharrukin (Fortress of Sargon?), present day Khorsabad, was the Assyrian capital in the time of Sargon II of Assyria. Khorsabad is a village in northern Iraq, northeast of Mosul. The great city was entirely built in the decade preceding 706 BC
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Image size: 4123 × 5087 px | 60.0 MB
Print size: 34.9 × 43.1 cm | 1623.2 × 2002.8 in (300 dpi)
Keywords: ASSYRIA • ASSYRIAN • CUNEIFORM • DUR-SHARRUKIN • FORTRESS OF SARGON • HUMAN-HEADED • IRAQ • KHORSABAD • LAMASSU • MYTHOL. ANIMAL: WINGED BULL • PALACE • SARGON II • SCRIPT • SCULPTURE • STATUA • STATUE • STATUES • WINGED BULL