A statue of the Emperor Trajan, the only Roman Emperor of Southern Mesopotamia and Babylonia. In 113 CE, Trajan initiated a victorious military campaign against the Parthian Empire that led to adding the new provinces of Assyria and Mesopotamia to Roman territories. The short-lived Roman presence in Mesopotamia ended with Emperor Trajan’s death. His successor Emperor Hadrian retreated from the newly-acquired Roman territories east of the Euphrates river. Arthur M. Sackler Museum of Harvard University, Cambridge, MA.
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Near Eastern miniatures are among the most prominent form of art in Medieval Persian and Ottoman Empires. Ottoman Baghdad was among the cities that continued to produce magnificent miniatures throughout the four centuries of the Ottoman rule of Mesopotamia. Freer and Sackler Galleries of the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC.
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Mushussu (also known as Mushhushshu or Sirrush) is the Dragon of Babylon and one of two animals depicted on the Ishtar Gate. It is depicted here on a kudurru (boundary stone) with divine symbols. This limestone kudurru dates back to the Second Dynasty of Isin, 1156-1025 BC. Newly unearthed artifacts depicting the Mushussu or Mushhushshu that were kept in Babylon Museum in Iraq were stolen in mid October 2012. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, NY.
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Lamassu (Human-headed winged bull) heading left. Relief from the m wall, k door, of king Sargon II’s palace at Dur Sharrukin in Assyria (now Khorsabad in Iraq), ca. 713–716 BC.. Musée du Louvre.
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