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Alabaster bas-relief detail showing the daggers of an Apkallu. Neo-Assyrian Period, 865-860 BCE. Detail of Panel 16, Room I, the North-West Palace at Nimrud, modern-day Iraq. (The British Museum, London)

Alabaster bas-relief detail showing the daggers of an Apkallu. Neo-Assyrian Period, 865-860 BCE. Detail of Panel at Door C (number 2), Room S, the North-West Palace at Nimrud, modern-day Iraq. (The British Museum, London...

Alabaster bas-relief detail showing the daggers of an Apkallu. Neo-Assyrian Period, 865-860 BCE Detail of Panel 2, Room Z, the North-West Palace at Nimrud, modern-day Iraq. (The British Museum, London)

Alabaster bas-relief showing female Apkallus flanking the sacred tree. Neo-Assyrian Period, 865-860 BCE. Panel 16, Room I, the North-West Palace at Nimrud, modern-day Iraq. (The British Museum, London)

Alabaster bas-relief of eagle-headed Apkallus flanking the sacred tree. Neo-Assyrian Period, 865-860 BCE. Room I, the North-West Palace at Nimrud, modern-day Iraq. (The British Museum, London)

Alabaster bas-relief of an Apkallu with four wings. Neo-Assyrian Period, 865-860 BCE. Panel 26, Room B, the North-West Palace at Nimrud, modern-day Iraq. (The British Museum, London)

Two glass pitchers and a bowl from Pompeii. 1st century CE. Soprintendenza Archeologica di Pompei, (photo taken at the National Maritime Museum, Sydney, Australia)

These sinkers were attached to an ancient fishing rod found at the Shengavit Settlement and archaeological site (c. 3500-2200 BCE) in Armenia. (Shengavit Museum, Yerevan).

Many potsherds have been discovered at the Shengavit settlement and archaeological site in Armenia (c. 3500-2200 BCE). (Shengavit Museum, Yerevan).

These are fragments from a ritual stand that was made from clay at the ancient Shengavit Settlement (c. 3500-2200 BCE) in present-day Armenia. (Shengavit Museum, Yerevan).