The Statue of Ashurnasirpal II is a rare example of Assyrian sculpture in the round that was found in the mid nineteenth century at the ancient site of Kalhu (now known as Nimrud) by the famous archaeologist Austen Henry Layard. Dating from 883–859 BC, the statue has long been admired for its flawless condition and the high quality of its craftsmanship. It has been part of the British Museum's collection since 1851.[1][2][3]
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StatueofAshurnasirpalII is a rare example of Assyrian sculpture in the round that was found in the mid nineteenth century at the ancient site of Kalhu...
Ashur-nasir-pal II (transliteration: Aššur-nāṣir-apli, meaning "Ashur is guardian of the heir") was king of Assyria from 883 to 859 BCE. AshurnasirpalII succeeded...
The Stela ofAshurnasirpalII is an enormous Assyrian monolith that was erected during the reign ofAshurnasirpalII. The stela was discovered in the mid...
deity. The StatueofAshurnasirpalII is in the British Museum, and that of Shalmaneser III in Istanbul. There is a unique female nude statue in the British...
Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York has another pair. The StatueofAshurnasirpalII, Stela of Shamshi-Adad V and Stela ofAshurnasirpalII are large sculptures...
to have worn a tightly woven headscarf, and a 9th-century BC statueofAshurnasirpalII depicts the emperor wearing a shawl. In 500 BC in Athens, women...
the gates of temples, palaces and cities. The earliest known examples of both wall reliefs and colossi are from the reign ofAshurnasirpalII, who might...
god Shulmanu is pre-eminent") was king of the Neo-Assyrian Empire from the death of his father AshurnasirpalII in 859 BC to his own death in 824 BC. His...
king, AshurnasirpalII (r. 883-859), who had erected other lion hunt reliefs in his palace at Nimrud some 200 years before, boasted in inscriptions of about...
the Assyrian sites of Nimrud and Nineveh between 1845 and 1851. At Nimrud, Layard discovered the North-West Palace ofAshurnasirpalII, as well as three...
Nəḇūḵaḏneʾṣṣar), also spelled Nebuchadrezzar II, was the second king of the Neo-Babylonian Empire, ruling from the death of his father Nabopolassar in 605 BC to...
floor of the concourse: A stela of the Assyrian King AshurnasirpalII (9th century BC) A marble Lion of Knidos, Asia Minor (3rd century BC) Two heads of Pharaoh...
the reign ofAshurnasirpalII (883–859 BC). The bands are decorated with scenes of Assyrian war, hunt, and tribute. The Balawat Gates are of archaeological...
as AshurnasirpalII). Atrocities enacted by Assyrian kings were in most known cases directed only towards soldiers and elites; as of 2016 none of the...
original on 18 March 2017. Retrieved 18 March 2017. "Egypt Pharaoh statue 'not Ramses II but different ruler'". BBC News. 16 March 2017. Archived from the...
the North-West Palace of AshurnasirpalII, as well as three other palaces and various temples. He later uncovered the Palace of Sennacherib at Nineveh with...
scenes of everyday life and often accompanied by hieroglyphics. The Fertile Crescent architectural sculptural tradition began when AshurnasirpalII moved...
cult statue. The structure of the less well-preserved Ishtar H was probably similar. The architecture of the temples is suggestive of the ED II (c. 2750/2700–2600 BC)...
beloved by the Assyrians as a formidable warrior. The Assyrian king AshurnasirpalII (ruled 883–859 BC) built a massive temple for him at Kalhu, which became...
written in the time of Shamshi-Adad I c. 1800 BC but it now is considered to date from much later, probably from the time ofAshurnasirpal I (r. 1049–1031...
Early Neo-Assyrian State Ideology Relations of Power in the Inscriptions and Iconography ofAshurnasirpalII (883–859) and Shalmaneser III (858–824). Instutionen...
male statues. The inscription on the side of the statue curses anyone, specifically men, who attempts to destroy the statue: "I, Napir-Asu, wife of Untash-Napirisha...
as the statueof Ikun-Shamash from Mari, the statueof Enzi from Der, or the statueof Lugal-dalu, which still has its head intact. The statueof Entemena...
conditions. One of the longer surviving examples is the Bassetki Statue, the copper base of a Narim-Sin statue: "Naram-Sin, the mighty, king of Agade, when...
sometimes erroneously enumerated as Ashurbanipal II, out of confusion with the earlier AshurnasirpalII, or as Ashurbanipal III, in succession to him (despite...
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