Assyria
There are 273 items in Assyria:
Nineveh, Walls |
Nisibis (Nusaybin)
Nisibis (Greek Νίσιβις; modern Nusaybin): ancient town in Mesopotamia, famous for its late-Roman school.Early History Nisibis, Church of Mar Jacob Situated along…
Old-Assyrian rhyton |
Olympia, Assyrian metalwork, reused in a Greek statue |
Oxford, Ashmolean Museum
General museum of art and archaeology. There are 3 items in Oxford, Ashmolean Museum: …Paris, Louvre
It is hard to write a review of the Louvre in Paris, because it is one of the world’s largest museums. There are many departments, and each one of them might, in its field, have been a museum of the…
Phoenician rhython in Assyrian style |
Proskynesis
Proskynesis: Greek name of the ritual greeting at the eastern courts. A courtier saluting king Darius the Great (central relief of…Ptolemy's Canon
Ptolemy's Canon: list of rulers of ancient Babylonia and the Near East, used by the astronomer Ptolemy of Alexandria to date astronomical phenomena. …Qarqar (853 BCE)
Battle of Qarqar: one of the fights during the Assyrian king Šalmaneser III's campaign against the city states of Syria. The main source is the Kurkh Stela, which has become famous because it mentions king Ahab of Israel.Prelude …Reading Cuneiform
The Assyrian and Babylonian Chronicles are historiographical texts from ancient Mesopotamia. Although they contain references to the earliest times, they deal especially with the second half of the second and the entire first millennium down to the first century BCE. …Rome, Museo Barracco
Collection of Egyptian, Mesopotamian, Phoenician, Cypriote, Etruscan, Greek, and Roman art. There are 1 items in Rome, Museo Barracco: …