mike catalonian: Female and Child Figurine, 1500-1200 BCE. Tyre, Lebanon.
mike catalonian: Ancient Mesopotamia. Capital Column in the form of a Man Bull, Achaemenid period, reign of Xerxes (486-465), excaveted at Persepolis (Iran)
mike catalonian: Assyrian Relief. Art Institute, Chicago
mike catalonian: Ancient Assyrian soldier
mike catalonian: Ancient Middle East. Akkadian sculpture, Mesopotamia, 2350 to 2000 BCE
mike catalonian: Ancient Middle-East. Copper alloy vase from Susa, Iran 1200 BC, Louvre Museum
mike catalonian: Ancient Babylon. Babylonian Ceramic Head, ca. late 8th–early 7th century B.C.
mike catalonian: Gold cup decorated with Wild Goats. Gilan, Marlik Tepe, Amlash art, 10th-8th century BCE, Ancient Iran.
mike catalonian: Ancient Mesopotamia. Hammurabi Babylonian Law code, c. 1750 BC
mike catalonian: Babylonian terracotta brick stamp, Inscribed “Shar-kali-sharri, king of Akkade, builder of Enlil’s temple.” Nipur, Iraq
mike catalonian: Christ as "The Land of the Living", Byzantine Mosaic, Chora Church, near Istanbul, Turkey
mike catalonian: Bird-shaped vessel XII century Saljuq period Brass inlaid with copper, glass bead; case, incised and chased, probably Iran
mike catalonian: Black basalt rectangular-sided monument recording Assyrian king Esarhaddon’s restoration of Babylon, 670BC (via British Museum)