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Kurba'il statue of Shalmaneser III (r. 858-824 BCE), found in Fort Shalmaneser in 1961 by the British School of Archaeology in Iraq.
The statue originally stood in the Temple of Adad at the city of Kurba'il, north of modern-day Mosul, but it was probably brought in antiquity to Fort Shalmaneser for repair, where it was found. The statue's cuneiform inscriptions mention the first 20 military campaigns of the king. Somewhere between 10 and 12 April 2003, this statue was looted from the Iraq Museum. It was retrieved in the following weeks, in 4 fragments (head, and 3 body parts).
Iraq Museum in Baghdad, Republic of Iraq.
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