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The National Museum of Iraq at Al-Salihyyia District, Baghdad
Image by Osama Shukir Muhammed Amin

The National Museum of Iraq at Al-Salihyyia District, Baghdad

This building was constructed and added to the original 2-story building of the Iraq Museum between 2012-2013 CE. This is where the visitors enter the museum, do the security check, keep their belongings inside lockable boxes, and buy tickets...
Hevajra
Image by Pritzker Collection

Hevajra

Hevajra; China; Ming dynasty, Yongle period (1403-1424 CE), c. 1417–1423 CE; silk embroidery; 51 3/5 x 32 in. (131 x 81 cm); Pritzker Collection; photograph by Hughes Dubois
Panjaranatha Mahakala
Image by The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Panjaranatha Mahakala

Panjaranatha Mahakala; Tibet; 14th century CE; steatite with color and gilding; 7 x 4 1/2 x 1 1/2 in. (17.8 x 11.4 x 3.8 cm); The Metropolitan Museum of Art; gift of Florence and Herbert Irving, 2015; 2015.500.4.18
Kublai Khan Naming Phakpa Imperial Preceptor
Image by Art Gallery of Greater Victoria

Kublai Khan Naming Phakpa Imperial Preceptor

Kublai (Qubilai) Khan Naming Phakpa Imperial Preceptor, c. 1270 CE; attributed to Khyentse Chenmo (flourished 1450s–1490s CE); Tibet; late 15th–16th century CE; pigments on cloth; 32 1/4 x 20 in. (82.6 x 50.8 cm); Art Gallery of Greater Victoria...
Initiation of Kublai Khan
Image by Rubin Museum of Art

Initiation of Kublai Khan

Initiation of Kublai (Qubilai) Khan and Offering Tibet to Phakpa in 1264 CE; Tibet; c. 16th–17th century; pigments on cloth; 24 1/4 x 15 1/8 in. (61.5 x 38.4 cm); Rubin Museum of Art; C2002.3.2 (HAR 65046)
Raven-Headed Mahakala
Image by Rubin Museum of Art

Raven-Headed Mahakala

Raven-Headed Mahakala; Bhutan; early to mid-19th century CE; pigments on cloth; 27 7/8 x 20 in. (70.8 x 50.8 cm); Rubin Museum of Art; C2006.42.8 (HAR 89189)
Throne Dais of Shlamaneser III at the Iraq Museum
Image by Osama Shukir Muhammed Amin

Throne Dais of Shlamaneser III at the Iraq Museum

This dais was found in the eastern end of the throne room (T1) at Fort Shalmaneser in the city of Nimrud (in modern-day Nineveh Governorate, Iraq) in 1962 CE. The upper surface is decorated with geometrical floral motifs and inscribed with...
Two Statues of Shalmaneser III at the Iraq Museum
Image by Osama Shukir Muhammed Amin

Two Statues of Shalmaneser III at the Iraq Museum

In the centre of this image is the so-called Kurba'il statue of Shalmaneser III (reigned 858-824 BCE), which was found in Fort Shalmaneser in 1961 CE by the British School of Archaeology in Iraq. The statue originally stood in the Temple...
Glazed Wall Panel from Fort Shalmaneser
Image by Osama Shukir Muhammed Amin

Glazed Wall Panel from Fort Shalmaneser

Detail of a large wall panel of vibrant glazed bricks once placed above the entrance to a vast room (T3) next to Shalmaneser III's throne room. The whole panel is composed of about 300 bricks and is 4 meters in length; this detail at the...
Lamassu from Khrsabad at the Iraq Museum
Image by Osama Shukir Muhammed Amin

Lamassu from Khrsabad at the Iraq Museum

This is one of a pair of colossal lamassus from the Palace of Sargon II at Khorsabad (in modern-day Nineveh Governorate, Iraq). Both of them are on display at the Assyrian Gallery of the Iraq Museum in Baghdad. During the ransacking of the...
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