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Royal Library of Ashurbanipal


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Royal Library of Ashurbanipal:

  • A large collection of cuneiform tablets of enormous importance, approximately 22,000 inscribed clay tablets, (7th century BC)

  • The Flood Tablet, relating part of the famous Epic of Gilgamesh, (7th century BC)

  • Taylor Prism, hexagonal clay foundation record, (691 BC)

Khorsabad and Balawat:

  • Alabaster bas-reliefs from the Palace of Sargon II, (710–705 BC)

  • Pair of Human Headed Winged Lamassu Bulls, (710–705 BC)

  • The Balawat Gates of Shalmaneser III, (860 BC)

Ur:

  • The Standard of Ur with depictions of war and peace, (2600 BC)

  • Queen's Lyre and gold drinking cup from Queen Puabi's tomb, (2600 BC)

  • The Ram in a Thicket, one of pair, the other is in Philadelphia, (2600–2400 BC)

  • The Royal Game of Ur, an ancient game board, (2600–2400 BC)

Wider collection:

  • Plastered human skull from Jericho, a very early form of portraiture, Palestine, (7000–6000 BC)

  • Tell Brak Head, one of the oldest portrait busts from the Middle East, north east Syria, (3500–3300 BC)

  • Uruk Trough, one of the earliest surviving works of narrative relief sculpture from the Middle East, southern Iraq, (3300–3000 BC)

  • Statue of Idrimi from the ancient city of Alalakh, southern Turkey, (1600 BC)

  • A fine collection of Urartian bronzes, which now form the core of the Anatolian collection, eastern Turkey, (9th–6th centuries BC)

  • Tablet of Shamash, depicting the sun-god Shamash, from Sippar, Iraq, (early 9th century BC)

  • Two large Assyrian stelae from Kurkh, southern Turkey, (850 BC)

  • Shebna Inscription from Siloam near Jerusalem, Israel, (7th century BC)

  • East India House Inscription from Babylon, Iraq, (604–562 BC)

  • Lachish Letters, group of ostraka written in alphabetic Hebrew from Lachish, Israel, (586 BC)

  • Cylinder of Nabonidus, foundation cylinder of King Nabonidus, Sippar, Iraq, (555–540 BC)

  • The famous Oxus Treasure, the largest ancient Persian hoard of gold artefacts, (550–330 BC)

  • The Punic-Libyan Inscription from the Mausoleum of Ateban, Dougga, Tunisia, (146 BC)

  • Amran Tablets found near Sana'a, Yemen, (1st century BC)

  • Two limestone ossuaries from caves in Jerusalem, (1st century AD)



Room 56 – The 'Ram in a Thicket' figure, one of a pair, from Ur, Southern Iraq, c. 2600 BC



Room 56 – The famous 'Standard of Ur', a hollow wooden box with scenes of war and peace, from Ur, c. 2600 BC



Room 56 - Sculpture of the god Imdugud, lion-headed eagle surmounting a lintel made from sheets of copper, Temple of Ninhursag at Tell al-'Ubaid, Iraq, c. 2500 BC



Room 56 - Statue of Kurlil, from the Temple of Ninhursag in Tell al-'Ubaid, southern Iraq, c. 2500 BC



Room 56 – The famous Babylonian 'Queen of the Night relief' of the goddess Ishtar, Iraq, c. 1790 BC



Room 57 - Carved ivory object from the Nimrud Ivories, Phoenician, Nimrud, Iraq, 9th–8th century BC



Room 6 – Depiction of the hypocrite, Jehu, King of Israel on the Black Obelisk of Shalmaneser III, Nimrud, c. 827 BC



Room 10 – Human Headed Winged Bulls from Khorsabad, companion pieces in the Musée du Louvre, Iraq, 710–705 BC



Room 55 – Cuneiform Collection, including the Epic of Gilgamesh, Iraq, c. 669-631 BC



Room 55 – Lion Hunt of Ashurbanipal (detail), Nineveh, Neo-Assyrian, Iraq, c. 645 BC



Room 55 - Panel with striding lion made from glazed bricks, Neo-Babylonian, Nebuchadnezzar II, Southern Iraq, 604–562 BC



Room 52 – A chariot from the Oxus Treasure, the most important surviving collection of Achaemenid Persian metalwork, c. 5th to 4th centuries BC



Room 53 - Stela said to come from Tamma' cemetery, Yemen, 1st century AD



Room 53 - Alabaster statue of a standing female figure, Yemen, 1st-2nd centuries AD



Room 34 - Cylindrical lidded box with an Arabic inscription recording its manufacture for the ruler of Mosul, Badr al-Din Lu'lu', Iraq, c. 1233 – 1259 AD

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