Objects that open a history
12 source-linked object dossiers connect materials, inscriptions, findspots and present collections. A museum location is not an ancient findspot, and an interpretation is not a photograph of the past.
12 object dossiers
Neo-Assyrian · Gypsum alabaster
A monumental human-headed winged bull shows how a palace doorway could combine architecture, supernatural protection and royal display.
Neo-Assyrian · Gypsum alabaster
A relief panel from the Northwest Palace makes clothing, court service and royal inscription part of one carefully arranged image.
Neo-Assyrian · Ivory
A small openwork furniture plaque connects an Assyrian-period collection with Egyptianizing imagery and Phoenician-style carving.
Neo-Assyrian · Ivory
An openwork furniture plaque from Nimrud shows why a findspot, a museum culture label and an artistic tradition need separate fields.
Neo-Assyrian · Black limestone
Five registers on four sides arrange tribute into a compact statement about a king, his chief minister and the reach of Assyrian power.
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Neo-Assyrian · Bronze
One identified band juxtaposes tribute from coastal cities with a campaign scene, turning a working palace door into a royal narrative.
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Neo-Assyrian manuscript of the Babylonian literary tradition · Clay
A seventh-century BCE clay manuscript preserves part of Tablet XI of the Epic of Gilgamesh, linking an Assyrian collection with a much older literary tradition.
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Neo-Assyrian · Gypsum
One panel from Sennacherib’s palace depicts people and possessions moving through a landscape after the siege of Lachish.
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Neo-Assyrian · Gypsum alabaster
A palace relief presents a banquet as royal victory, ordered leisure and court status, rather than an unposed record of private life.
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Neo-Assyrian · Baked clay
A six-sided clay royal inscription illustrates both the force of an ancient claim and the limits of a modern collection provenance.
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Neo-Assyrian or Neo-Babylonian, as classified by the exhibition catalogue · Green grossular garnet
An identified green-stone seal and its modern impression make the difference between an ancient tool and a modern aid to reading especially clear.
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Modern art · Ink and acrylic on paper
A modern work connects poetry and Iranian-Assyrian artistic identity, extending the object explorer beyond the remains of ancient empires.
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