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This large wall panel of vibrant glazed bricks was once placed above the entrance to a vast room (T3) next to Shalmaneser III's throne room at Fort Shalmaneser in Nimrud (in modern-day Nineveh Governorate, Iraq). The whole panel is composed of about 300 bricks and is 407 cm in height and 291 cm in width. There are two central scenes. The upper one shows two rampant bulls flanking the scared tree. The lower one depicts two images of Shalmaneser III, facing each other. The king wears a ceremonial dress and holds a mace in his left hand while the right hand is in a prayer gesture. Above the king, the god Assur rises from the middle of a winged solar disc. There are cuneiform inscriptions narrating the king's genealogy and the text separates the two scenes. During the ransacking of the Iraq Museum in April 2003 CE, this panel remained intact and safe from vandalizing. Reign of Shalmaneser III, 858-824 BCE. It is on display at the Assyrian Gallery in the Iraq Museum in Baghdad, Republic of Iraq.
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