Lama, Lamma, or Lamassu (Cuneiform: ð’€ð’†—, an.kal; Sumerian: dlammaÅ™; later in Akkadian: lamassu; sometimes called a lamassus) is an Assyrian protective...
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Assyrian sculpture (section Lamassu)
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...
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lion hunt (Pergamon) Lamassu, Stelas, Statue, Relief Panels, including the Black Obelisk of Shalmaneser III (British Museum) Lamassu of Tiglath-pileser...
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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...
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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...
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connected the name keruv with Assyrian kirubu (a name of the shedu or lamassu) and karabu ("great, mighty"). Karppe (1897) glossed Babylonian karâbu...
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human face Jingwei (Chinese) – a bird who is determined to fill up the sea Lamassu (Mesopotamian) – goddess with a human head, the body of a bull or a lion...
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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...
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of a woman and bird, often a woman's head and breasts and a bird's body Lamassu, Assyrian deity, bull/lion-eagle-human hybrid Hippogryph, half eagle, half...
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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...
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