File:Human headed winged bull profile.jpg

Page contents not supported in other languages.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Original file(1,500 × 1,438 pixels, file size: 286 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg)

This file is from Wikimedia Commons (production) and may be used by other projects. The description on its file description page there is shown below.

Summary

Description
English: 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.
Français : Taureau androcéphale ailé de profil, tourné vers la gauche. Bas-relief de la façade m, porte k, du palais bâti par Sargon II à Dur Sharukin, en Assyrie (actuelle Khorsabad, Iraq), v. 713–716 av. J.-C.
Date 3 February 2005, 13:57:25
Dimensions H. 4.2 m (165 ¼ in.), W. 4.4 m (173 in.), D. 1 m (39 ¼ in.)
institution QS:P195,Q19675
Current location
Department of Oriental antiquities, Richelieu, ground floor, room 4
Accession number
AO 19858
Credit line Excavated by Paul-Émile Botta, 1843–1844
Source/Photographer Marie-Lan Nguyen (2005)

Licensing

Public domain I, the copyright holder of this work, release this work into the public domain. This applies worldwide.
In some countries this may not be legally possible; if so:
I grant anyone the right to use this work for any purpose, without any conditions, unless such conditions are required by law.

Captions

Add a one-line explanation of what this file represents

File history

Click on a date/time to view the file as it appeared at that time.

Date/TimeThumbnailDimensionsUserComment
current12:13, 6 February 2005Thumbnail for version as of 12:13, 6 February 20051,500 × 1,438 (286 KB)wikimediacommons>JastrowHuman-headed winged bull
The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed):

Metadata