Lamassu Sculpture at the British Museum, London

Colossal statue of a winged human-headed bull from the North-West Palace of Ashurnasirpal II at Nimrud (Kalhu), exhibited at the British Museum, London, having faced an incredible (and dangerous) joureny from Iraq to England following excavated by Austen Henry Layard in the late 1840s. Two visitors, in Victorian dress, are shown viewing the sculpture

Assyrian Colossal Exhibited Kalhu Lamassu Layard Nimroud Nimrud Viewing Winged

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