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Ivory head of a lion

This ivory lion's head probably comes from a piece of furnit…
Lapis lazuli cylinder seal

This seal has a scene that shows human-headed bulls being pr…
Light green glass bowl

This glass bowl was discovered in the nineteenth century by …
Lion's head

This lion's head was discovered in 1919 at the small site of…
Mosaic column

This mosaic column was excavated by H.R. Hall in 1919 at the…
Silver beaker-1

Each campaigning season the Assyrian army gathered at the pa…
Stone figure of an attendant god

This limestone figure is one of a pair set up outside a door…
Stone panel from the North Palace of Ashurbanipal

This fragmentary alabaster wall panel comes from the left-ha…
Stone panel from the North Palace of Ashurbanipal

This alabaster wall panel was originally set into the mud br…
Stone panel from the North Palace of Ashurbanipal (Room E, no. 13)

This stone panel decorated a mud brick wall of the palace of…
Stone panel from the North Palace of Ashurbanipal (Room H, no. 7)

The panel probably shows part of two independent composition…
Stone panel from the North Palace of Ashurbanipal (Room H, nos. 7-9)

This panel probably shows part of two independent compositio…
Stone panel from the North Palace of Ashurbanipal (Room L, nos. 9-13)

By the date that this panel was carved, the Arab tribes of n…
Stone panel from the North-West Palace of Ashurnasirpal II (Court D, no. 7)

This relief panel comes from the walls of the courtyard whic…
Stone panel from the North-West Palace of Ashurnasirpal II (Room B, no. 30)

The relief, carved on gypsum, guarded an entrance into the t…
Stone panel from the North-West Palace of Ashurnasirpal II (Room B, panel 17 bottom)

This alabaster relief depicts the typical conclusion of Assy…
Stone panel from the North-West Palace of Ashurnasirpal II (Room B, panel 17 top)

The panel probably shows an incident described in Ashurnasir…
Stone panel from the North-West Palace of Ashurnasirpal II (Room B, Panel 19)

This alabaster relief shows the royal sport of kings. Royal …
Stone panel from the North-West Palace of Ashurnasirpal II (Room B, Panel 20)

Shown here is the upper part of a panel on the wall close to…
Stone panel from the North-West Palace of Ashurnasirpal II (Room B, Panel 3)

This panel shows part of a battle scene which depicts Assyri…
Stone panel from the North-West Palace of Ashurnasirpal II (Room B, Panel 7)

The panel shows part of a battle scene. The Assyrian camp is…
Stone panel from the North-West Palace of Ashurnasirpal II (Room I)

The use of magic to protect buildings and their owners was a…
Stone panel from the South-West Palace of Sennacherib (Court 6)

This panel continues the narrative from the previous panel i…
Stone panel from the South-West Palace of Sennacherib (Court 6, no. 64)

This panel is one of a series that originally decorated two …
Stone panel from the South-West Palace of Sennacherib (Room 28, Panel 9)

This carved alabaster slab is part of one of the last series…
Stone panel from the South-West Palace of Sennacherib (Room 36, no. 10)

The story continues from the previous panel (no. 9) of the r…
Stone panels from the North Palace of Ashurbanipal

These wall panels probably originally decorated one of the p…
Stone panels from the North Palace of Ashurbanipal (Room S, nos. 13-18)

This is part of a series of sculptures which decorated a pri…
Stone panels from the North-West Palace of Ashurnasirpal II (Room G, nos. 2-3)

These panel may have come from a banqueting hall at the pala…
Stone panels from the South-West Palace of Sennacherib (Room 28, nos. 7-9)

This carved alabaster slab is part of one of the last series…
Stone relief from the North-West Palace of Ashurnasirpal II (Room B, Panel 10)

The two chariots shown on the relief carry standards probabl…
Stone relief from the North-West Palace of Ashurnasirpal II (Room Z)

This relief, carved on alabaster, was one of a pair which gu…
Stone relief from the South-West Palace of Sennacherib

This is one small surviving fragment from a much larger comp…
Stone relief from the South-West Palace of Sennacherib (Room 32)

Guardian figures were traditionally used to protect Assyrian…
The Dying Lion, a stone panel from the North Palace of Ashurbanipal

This small alabaster panel was part of a series of wall pane…
The 'Garden Party' relief from the North Palace of Ashurbanipal (Room S)

This panel was the focal point of a decorative scheme incorp…
Tablet recording a gold delivery by a chief eunuch of the Babylonian court

The Babylonian cuneiform inscription on this clay tablet she…
Bronze door-slab

This door-slab comes from the lower part of a flight of step…
Copper axe

This axe was found in one of the Royal Graves of Ur where no…
Faience mask

The excavator Leonard Woolley discovered this mask in a tomb…
Fluted glass bottle

This glass bottle was discovered by the excavator Leonard Wo…
Pink chalcedony cylinder seal

This cylinder seal is typical of the period when the dynasty…
Terracotta figure of a woman suckling a child

Leonard Woolley found this figure, along with a few bones an…
Stone relief from the throne room of Ashurnasirpal II

This Assyrian relief comes from the throne room of the so-ca…
Cuneiform tablet with part of the Babylonian Chronicle (616-609 BC)

This tablet is one of a series that summarises the principal…
The Taylor Prism

This six-sided baked clay document (or prism) was discovered…
Beads and pendants

The archaeologist Leonard Woolley found these beads and pend…
Brass geomantic instrument, made by Muhammad ibn Khutlukh al-Mawsili

This unique instrument 'calculates' patterns of dots with di…
Bronze bowl

This very fragmentary bronze platter was discovered in the l…
Bronze bowl

On 5 January 1849 the excavator Henry Layard made a remarkab…
Bronze bowl with Egyptian motifs

On 5 January 1849 the excavator, Henry Layard, made a remark…
Cylinder of Nebuchadnezzar II

This clay cylinder was found in the ruins of the city of Bab…
Headdress and necklace of gold, lapis lazuli and cornelian

Dug outside the walls of the city, the so-called 'Royal Ceme…
'Scarlet Ware' jar

The jar is decorated in red and black paint with chariot and…
Stone panel from the Central Palace of King Tiglath-pileser III

The Assyrian soldiers can be identified by their tall pointe…
Tablet of Shamash

This stone tablet shows Shamash , the sun-god, seated under …
The Black Obelisk of Shalmaneser III

The archaeologist Henry Layard discovered this black limesto…
Carved stone lintel

This stone slab forned the lintel from the top of a doorway.…
Fragment of a stone stele dedicated by Itur-Ashdum

The cuneiform inscription states that a high official called…
Map of the World

This tablet contains both a cuneiform inscription and a uniq…
The Flood Tablet, relating part of the Epic of Gilgamesh

The Assyrian King Ashurbanipal (reigned 669-631 BC) collecte…
Cuneiform tablet with part of the Nabonidus Chronicle (556-530s BC)

This tablet forms part of a series, and summarises the princ…
Brass celestial globe

The celestial globe is a three-dimensional map of the stars,…
Clay tablet with a cuneiform letter and its envelope

This tablet is one of thousands found at the site of Kültepe…
Fragments of a yellowish glass flask

These are the fragments of a gilded glass flask. The gold wa…
Stone panel from the South-West Palace of Sennacherib (Room 36, no. 7)

This alabaster panel was part of a series which decorated th…
Stone panels from the South-West Palace of Sennacherib (Room 36, nos. 14-16)

These alabaster panels were part of a series which decorated…
Stone panels from the South-West Palace of Sennacherib (Room 36, nos. 8-10)

These alabaster panels were part of a series which decorated…

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