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A 16th century CE portrait of Oda Nobunaga who was the foremost military leader of Japan from 1568 to 1582 CE. Painted by Kano Soshu. (Toyota, Aichi, Japan)

This limestone slab was inscribed with an Aramaic inscription. The name of the city of "Hatra" as the center of the region "Araba" appears. From the 11th temple at Hatra, Ninawa Governorate, Iraq. Parthian period, 1st to 3rd century CE. On...

This alabaster jar is inscribed with Elamite, Old Persian, and Neo-Babylonian cuneiforms. A cartouche of the Achaemenid king Xerxes I also appears. From Nimrud, in modern-day Ninawa Governorate, Iraq. Regin of Xerxes I, 486–465 BCE. On display...

This cuneiform inscription on this gypsum wall panel narrates the building process and construction of a palace by the neo-Assyrian king Ashurnasirpal II at the city of Nimrud. From the North-West Palace at Nimrud, in modern-day Ninawa Governorate...

Cay tablet narrating the building works of the Assyrian king Adad-Nirari II (r. 911-891 BCE), from Ashur (Assur), modern-day Iraq. The Iraq Museum, Baghdad.

This stone tablet was found in a niche into the right-hand wall of the space leading to the burial chamber of Tomb II (one of the vaulted burial chambers of the so-called Queens' Tombs inside the North-West Palace at Nimrud). The cuneiform...

This clay tablet narrates the building works of the Assyrian king Shalmaneser III (reigned 858-824 BCE). From Ashur (Assur), Iraq. (The Iraq Museum, Baghdad).

The cuneiform inscription on this clay tablet states that the neo-Assyrian king Adad-nirari II (reigned 911 - 891 BCE) has built a city and a palace. From northern Mesopotamia, Iraq. (The Iraq Museum, Baghdad).

This gypsum wall panel came from the North-West Palace of Ashurnasirpal II (883 - 859 BCE) at Nimrud. Ths so-called "Standard Inscription" of Ashurnasirpal II runs horizontally across the lower part. The king wears a diadem and holds a bucket...

This gypsum wall panel came from the North-West Palace of Ashurnasirpal II (883 - 859 BCE) at Nimrud. The king greets an unidentified figure before him (now lost) who holds a long staff. Behind the king, an Assyrian eunuch (guard or attendant...