Dur-Sharrukin
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Dur-Sharrukin, present day Khorsabad, was the Assyrian capital in the time of Sargon II of Assyria. Khorsabad is a village in northern Iraq, 15 km northeast of Mosul. The great city was entirely built
A human-headed winged bull known as a lamassu from Dur-Sharrukin. Neo-Assyrian Period, ca. 721–705 BC
Lamassu found during Botta's excavation, now in the Louvre Museum.
Reconstructed Model of Palace of Sargon at Khorsabad 1905
Convoy of rafts (Keleks) floating down the Tigris river loaded with antiquities in 1855 (V Place 1867)
Lamassu
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Lama, Lamma, or Lamassu is a Mesopotamian protective deity.
Dur-Sharrukin
…the god-protector of the city Lamassu on one side. The palace was adorned with sculptures and wall reliefs, and the gates were flanked with winged-bull shedu statues weighing up to 40 tons. Sargon supposedly lost at least one of these winged bulls in the river. In the south-west corner of the city was located…
Lamassu at the Iraq Museum, Baghdad
Lamma, protective winged deity, Sumerian Isin-Larsa period (2000–1800 BC)
Statuette of the goddess Lama, probably made in a workshop on the outskirts of Mesopotamia. Isin-Larsa period (2000–1800 BC). Royal Museums of Art and History