36°13′46″N43°24′12″E / 36.22944°N 43.40333°E / 36.22944; 43.40333 on
Site notes
Excavation dates
1878, 1956, 1989
Archaeologists
Hormuzd Rassam, M. Mallowan, D.J. Tucker
Balawat (Classical Syriac: ܒܝܬ ܠܒܬ, beṯ labat) is an archaeological site of the ancient Assyrian city of Imgur-Enlil, and modern village in Nineveh Province (Iraq). It lies 25 kilometres (16 mi) southeast from the city of Mosul and 4 kilometres (2.5 mi) to the south of the modern Assyrian town of Bakhdida.
Balawat (Classical Syriac: ܒܝܬ ܠܒܬ, beṯ labat) is an archaeological site of the ancient Assyrian city of Imgur-Enlil, and modern village in Nineveh Province...
The Balawat Gates are three sets of decorated bronze bands that had adorned the main doors of several buildings at Balawat (ancient Imgur-Enlil), dating...
Balawat Gates, or the Balawat Bronze Bands are three sets of decorated bronze bands that had adorned the main doors of several buildings at Balawat (ancient...
The Balawat Gates are of archaeological and historical significance because they are considered a "'major' find from a 'minor'" site. Tell-Balawat, the...
century BC and the relatively minor city of Imgur-Enlil, modern Balawat. The Balawat Gates were all double gates about 20 foot high, with both the front...
style. The most famous of these are the "Balawat Gates" commissioned by Shalmaneser III for his palace at Balawat (ancient Imgur-Enlil); additional fragmentary...
3). Toronto University Press. pp. 31, 26–28. iv 6 Door fitting from the Balawat Gates, BM 124660. Ran Zadok (1984), Assyrians in Chaldean and Achaemenians...
– human-headed winged lions and reliefs from Nimrud with the Gates of Balawat The British Museum – human-headed winged bulls from Dur-Sharrukin The British...
locations on the outskirts of the town were excavated by Hormuzd Rassam. In Balawat (the ancient Assyrian city of Imgur-Enlil) a number of Assyrian artifacts...
objects including the Cyrus Cylinder from Babylon, the bronze gates from Balawat, important objects from Sippar, and a fine collection of Urartian bronzes...
headlines in July 2007 when Israel asked for its return Gezer calendar Balawat gates (one gate) Samaria ostraca Warning inscription from the Second Temple...
Unger who was the curator of the Istanbul museum described the remains of Balawat Gates that are still in the Istanbul Museum. Unger was fully aware that...
Ashurnasirpal II and Shalmaneser III of Assyria. Sangara already appeared in the Balawat Bronze Bands of Ashurnasirpal II as a tributary probably at some time before...
major buildings, but were mostly looted at the fall of the empire; the Balawat Gates are the principal survivors. Temples often predated the creation...
production in 852 BC is shown in the relief of the bronze door bands of the Balawat Gates, now in the British Museum. Above the Tunnel there is a natural rock...
Nippur, dating from 2000 BC, were in dolerite. The tenons of the gates at Balawat were sheathed with bronze (now in the British Museum). These doors or gates...
decorated with reliefs, several of which have survived, such as the various Balawat Gates. Other traditional types of art continued to be produced, and the...
archaeological work at Balawat for the British Institute for the Study of Iraq and subsequently prepared drawings of the Balawat Gates. After her retirement...
and two of the unique and historically important bronze strips from the Balawat Gates. He identified the famous Hanging Gardens of Babylon with the mound...
Xanten Horse-Phalerae Middle East Ain Sakhri figurine Assyrian lion weights Balawat Gates Blacas ewer Uruk Trough Blau Monuments Palmer Cup Standard of Ur...
the Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian & Archaeological Society. The Balawat Gates are discovered in Assyria by Hormuzd Rassam. 31 Iguanodon skeletons...
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