Thoughts + Interests

♱. Assyrian American.

[mikeybooch]

Four love goddesses from different cultures. 

[hafeziangardens]

Bauhaus inspired abstraction of an assyrian Šedu

[assyrian-prince]

You’re an embarrassment to assyrians

Lol! Love you too.

[desimonewayland]

Vase mid-19th Century

W.T. Copeland & Sons, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England

Porcelain (parian)

The National Gallery of Victoria

[m1male2]

This famous Assyrian relief shows the episode in which Assurbanipal and his wife celebrate the victory against Elam, sitting almost on an equal footing while drinking a glass of wine (7th BC.)

It comes from the Assurbanipal Palace in Kuyunjik, Nineveh

British museum

[theancientwayoflife]

~ Ziggurat Brick from the Assyrian Capital City of Kalhu.

Date: 859-825 B.C.

Culture: Assyrian

Place of origin: Mesopotamia

Medium: Fired clay

[qalamoun]

“Gilgamesh and Enkidu” by Syrian artist Saad Yagan. جلجماش و انكيدو

[bagdemagus]

Head of a Winged Figure, lithograph illustration of a relief from the Northwest Palace of Ashurnasirpal II (882-859 BCE) at Nimrud

From The Monuments of Nineveh (1853) by Austen Henry Layard

[assyrian-prince]

The Triumphal Entry, from a Medieval Syriac manuscript

[tammuz]

Assyrian relief of a winged genie or Apkallu from room S, panel 17 in the city of Namrud’s Northwest Palace. The relief dates back to 875-860 BCE. Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, ME.

Photo by Babylon Chronicle

[bagdemagus]

Relief panel from Room H of the Northwest Palace of Ashurnasirpal II (883-859 BCE) at Kalhu (modern Nimrud, Iraq) Staatliche Museen zu Berlin (VA 951), on display in the Neues Museum

[theancientwayoflife]

~ Horus Seated on Lotus.

Culture: Egyptian (?), Assyrian (?)

Place of origin: Iraq, Nimrud

Period: Assyrian

Date: 8th century B.C.

Medium: Ivory

[tammuz]

Alabaster relief from the Neo-Assyrian period (704-681 BCE) depicting Assyrian soldiers storming a citadel. The relief was found in the now destroyed Southwest Palace of Sennacherib at the Assyrian city of Nineveh. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, NY.

Photo by Babylon Chronicle

[historyteacherinfrance]

Objets faits en or et pierres semi-Précieuses (font partie du “Trésor de nimrud”), trouvés dans quatre tombes réelles, situées sous le palais du Roi Assyrien Ashurnasirpal II (883-859 av. J c.). datant d'environ 2.800 ans - ancienne capitale assyrienne De Kalhu (actuel Nimrud), nord de l'Irak.

[assyrian-prince]

My parents’ and grandparents’ village of Amadiya in northern Iraq/Assyria. ❤️

[tahmtu-deactivated20200204]

Colorized photograph of an Assyrian in Northern Iraq, 1950s (WPT/FOX Photos)

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Portraits of Assyrian women with children, Habbaniyah in Iraq, 1950 (HF)

Assyrians from Suldoz and Urmia, Iran, settled to the city in the early 20th century after the Assyrian genocide.