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This artwork from Iran depicts 2 deities kneeling beside the sacred tree, the same tree that Nisroch is depicted as watering with his bucket of water. They have…
This Silver Scultpture of a Mountain Goat with a golden head is one of many sculptures dsicovered from Susa, Iran during the proto-elamite period that are detailed with…
This Image is of the hero Gilgamesh between the two bull-men holding up the sun disk engraved into black stone. The stone relief is almost identical to our…
This piece is of another winged bull-man, however it is similar to the griffin man in that they were both used to decorate a throne. Figures like these…
The Golden Cup of Marlik was found when excavations in 1961 that were being done in a graveyard that dated back to 3000 years ago. This site was…
This is an image of the Kneeling Bull with Spouted Vessel. It provides us with different angles of this figure so that we can see the back and…
The kneeling bull holding a spouted vessel was found buried in Southwestern Iran, and is now held in Metropolitan Museum of Art. It stands 16.3 centimeters tall, and…
A very common thing found in tombs from the Marlik culture were the polished vases and goblets of precious metals like gold and silver depending on the status…
Supporting Image of representations of Marduk. Snake-Dragon at the Detroit Institute of Arts. This is a glazed brick relief from the city of Babylon itself from the Neo…
A statue of Lamassu from Mesopotamian Mithology. The “king of Assyria”,lime stone, alabaster. The figure is about 42 ft high. The statue from the British Museum is part…
This is a close up view of a stone carving of Nisroch the Assyrian god of agriculture. Our group found the details in the texturing of the stone…
This is a sculpture of a man found in Mesopotamia. It is made of limestone, not copper, however it is about the same size of the “Striding man”…