2 carved stone slabs from Nineveh (Assyrian)....King Ashurbanipal hunting lions

Winged, human-headed bulls (weighing some 16 tons each) protected gateways of Assyrian palaces at Nimrud, Khorsabad and Nineveh.   These are from the palace of Sargon II at Khorsabad.

	glazed brick relief of Darius the Great (521-486 BCE) part of a frieze that shows a parade of the king's "Immortals"...bodyguards
reconstructed tomb at Jericho during the Middle Bronze Age (c. 1750-1650 BCE) first one, then six more people were interred in the tomb, along with pottery and wooden furniture, rarely preserved elsewhere in Palestine.	marble lion, from Cnidus, Turkey, 4th century BCE

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