MOSUL: A dig in northern Iraq has unearthed a 2,700-year-old alabaster sculpture of the winged Assyrian deity Lamassu, which was found largely intact ...
This picture taken on October 24, 2023 shows a view of a newly-unearthed Assyrian Lamassu sculpture discovered with its entire wings intact by the French archaeological mission at the archaeological site of Khorsabad , the former Assyrian capital in the time of Sargon II in Iraq’s northern Nineveh province/AFPPix: A dig in northern Iraq has unearthed a 2,700-year-old alabaster sculpture of the winged Assyrian deity Lamassu, which was found largely intact despite its large dimensions.
“I never unearthed anything this big in my life before,“ Butterlin said of the 18-tonne sculpture measuring 3.8 by 3.9 metres . “Normally, it’s only in Egypt or Cambodia that you find pieces this big. Erected at the entrance to the ancient city of Khorsabad, some 15 kilometres north of the modern city of Mosul, the sculpture shows the Lamassu, an Assyrian deity with a human head, the body of a bull and the wings of a bird.
First mentioned in the 19th century by French archaeologist Victor Place, the relief dropped from public records until the 1990s when Iraqi authorities earmarked it for “urgent intervention”.
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