Lama, Lamma, or Lamassu (Cuneiform: 𒀭𒆗, an.kal; Sumerian: dlammař; later in Akkadian: lamassu; sometimes called a lamassus) is an Assyrian protective...

alabaster for large sculpture. Much the best-known works are the huge lamassu guarding entrance ways, and Assyrian palace reliefs on thin slabs of alabaster...

lion hunt (Pergamon) Lamassu, Stelas, Statue, Relief Panels, including the Black Obelisk of Shalmaneser III (British Museum) Lamassu of Tiglath-pileser...

and elephant seals to their lairs. - from The Ramayana IIT translation. Lamassu or shedu in Mesopotamian mythology was depicted as a winged lion. It was...

royal capital to Kalhu (modern Nimrud, Iraq). Human-headed winged lion (lamassu) gateway supports from the palace date from this period to 859 BC. Shalmaneser...

connected the name keruv with Assyrian kirubu (a name of the shedu or lamassu) and karabu ("great, mighty"). Karppe (1897) glossed Babylonian karâbu...

dialect of the Western Pantar language of Indonesia Lamma, Sumerian name for Lamassu, a protective female deity LAMMA show, an agricultural show in the United...

Lamassu from the Assyrian gallery at the Iraq Museum, Baghdad...

the round, except for colossal guardian figures, often the human-headed lamassu, which are sculpted in high relief on two sides of a rectangular block...

can be found at neolithic Çatalhöyük. The Sumerian guardian deity called lamassu was depicted as hybrids with bodies of either winged bulls or lions and...