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112 British Museum Mesopotamia Stock Photos and High-res Pictures

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Early writing. Pictographs drawn. Mesopotamia. Record of food supplies. From Iraq. Late Prehistoric period. About 3000BC. Early administrative text....

Mesopotamia. Record of food supplies.

Cuneiform tablet depicting beer allocation. 2351-2342 BC. From Girsu. Uruinimgina King. British Museum. London.

Cuneiform tablet depicting beer allocation.

Mesopotamia. Early writing. Pictographs drawn. Clay tablet. Administrative text. British Museum, London, England, United Kingdom.

Group of three protective spirits, Assyrian, Nineveh North Palace, 645 - 640 BCE, British Museum.

Iraq/Mesopotamia: A group of three protective spirits, Assyrian, Nineveh North Palace, 645 - 640 BCE, British Museum

Mesopotamia. Clay Tablet. Pictographs drawn. Early writing tablet recording the allocation of beer. Iraq. Late Prehistoric period. 3100-3000BC....

Mesopotamia. Clay Tablet.

Detail of Sumerian soldiers from the Royal Standard of Ur from a Royal tomb at Ur, southern Iraq, about 2600-2400 BC. Inlay of shell, red limestone,...

Detail of Sumerian soldiers from the Royal Standard of Ur, about 2600-2400 BC.

Detail from an ancient Assyrian stone carving depicting an attack on an enemy town by a river, in the British Museum, on 11th April 2018, in London,...

Assyrian Battle Carving In The British Museum

Detail of one ancient Assyrian stone panel carving showing archers attacking the town of Lachish near Jerusalem, in the British Museum, on 11th April...

Assyrian Battle Carving In The British Museum

Akkadian cylinder-seal impression showing the flood-epic. Utanapishtim is in the ark, and Gilgamesh is fighting the Bull. From the British Museum's...

Akkadian cylinder-seal impression showing the flood-epic.

Assyrian winged bulls from Khorsabad, British Museum, London, England.

Assyrian winged bulls from Khorsabad, British Museum, London, England

Mesopotamia. Terracotta vase. Probably from Umma. Iraq. Early Dynastic Period. 2330 BC. Document referring to a conflict between the city-states of...

Mesopotamia. Terracotta vase.

Mesopotamia. Summer. Archaic Dynasty III. King Eannatum of Lagash. From Girsu. 2424-2405BC. British Museum, London, England, United Kingdom.

Mesopotamia. Summer.

Standard of Ur, the war side, from the Royal Cemetery at Ur, Sumerian, c2500 BC. Made from lapis lazuli, mother-of-pearl, shell and coloured stone...

Standard of Ur, the war side, from the Royal Cemetery at Ur, Sumerian, c2500 BC.

Mesopotamian Art. Middle Babylonian. 875-850 B.C. Black diorite tablet carved with labelled scene showing Nabu-apla-iddina, the priest, standing with...

Black diorite tablet of Nabu-apla-iddina.

Stone panel from the Central Palace of Tiglath-pileser III. Nimrud . Northern Iraq. Neo-Assyrian. 730-727 BC. British Museum, London, United Kingdom.

Palace of Tiglath-pileser III.

Mesopotamia. Commemorative stone stela. Babylonian, about 900-800 BC. Iraq. British Museum, London, England, United Kingdom.

Commemorative stone stela.

Detail of the standard of Ur showing a Sumerian Harpist and a Ruler, from a Royal tomb at Ur, southern Iraq, about 2600-2400 BC. Inlay of shell, red...

Detail of the standard of Ur showing a Sumerian Harpist and a Ruler, about 2600-2400 BC.

Sumerian reed house. Detail of the Uruk Trough, 3300-3000 BC. Found in the collection of the British Museum. Creator: Sumerian culture.

Sumerian Reed House. Detail Of The Uruk Trough

Mesopotamian Art Babylon. Terracotta tiles decorated in floral motifs. Dated between 600-500 BC. They come from the Temple of Nabu in Borsippa....

Terracotta tiles decorated in floral motifs.

The black obelisk of Shalmaneser III. The obelisk is attributed to the Assyrian king who receives the tribute of Jehu, king of Israel. The detail...

The black obelisk of Shalmaneser III

Stone Head. Represent a god, goddess or a worshipper. A vertical groove at the back of the head, with nail holes on the sides, suggests that it may...

Stone Head. Represent a god, goddess or a worshipper.

The Standard of Ur from a Royal tomb at Ur, southern Iraq, about 2600-2400 BC. Inlay of shell, red limestone, and lapis lazuli in Bitumen on a hollow...

Side of the Sumerian 'Standard of Ur', southern Iraq, about 2600-2400 BC.

Detail of the Sumerian ruler from the Standard of Ur from a Royal tomb at Ur, southern Iraq, about 2600-2400 BC. Inlay of shell, red limestone, and...

Detail of the Sumerian ruler from the Standard of Ur, about 2600-2400 BC..

Detail of one ancient Assyrian stone panel carving showing archers attacking the town of Lachish near Jerusalem, in the British Museum, on 11th April...

Assyrian Battle Carving In The British Museum

Mesopotamian weapons, c3100 BC. The Sumerians and Akkadians dominated Mesopotamia from the beginning of written history to the fall of Babylon in 539...

Mesopotamian Weapons

Mesopotamia. Early Dynastic Period III. Votive pebble with inscription. Eanmtum I King. 2424-2405 BC. From Girsu. British Museum, London, England,...

Mesopotamia. Early Dynastic Period III.

Detail of the Standard of Ur, showing a Sumerian War-Chariot, from a Royal tomb at Ur, southern Iraq, about 2600-2400 BC. The main panels are known...

Detail of the Standard of Ur, showing a Sumerian War-Chariot, southern Iraq, about 2600-2400 BC.

Tablet telling the legend of Etana, from Nineveh, northern Iraq, Neo-Assyrian, 7th century BC. The story told on this tablet centres on Etana, a...

Tablet telling the legend of Etana, from Nineveh, northern Iraq, Neo-Assyrian, 7th century BC.

Map of the World, probably from Sippar, southern Iraq, Babylonian, c700-c500 BC. This tablet contains both a cuneiform inscription and a unique map...

Map of the World, probably from Sippar, southern Iraq, Babylonian, c700-c500 BC.

Cylinder seal and impression depicting the Great King Darius in a chariot hunting lions, The winged disk of the god Ahura Mazda is above. The...

Cylinder seal and impression depicting the Great King Darius in a chariot hunting lions

Sumerian reed house. Detail of the Uruk Trough, 3300-3000 BC. Found in the collection of the British Museum. Creator: Sumerian culture.

Sumerian Reed House. Detail Of The Uruk Trough

Burney relief. Queen of the Night). Mesopotamian terracotta plaque. High relief o f the Isin-Larsa period or Old-Babylonian period. Winged, nude,...

Tablet used to record the movments of Planet Jupiter. Babylonian civilisation. London, British Museum

Tablet used to record movments of Planet Jupiter

King Ummanigash being saluted, detail from a relief from Nineveh, Iraq. Assyrian civilisation, 7th Century BC. London, British Museum

King Ummanigash being saluted

Relief depicting hunters, from Ashurbanipal's Palace in Nineveh, Iraq. Assyrian civilisation, 7th Century BC. London, British Museum

Relief depicting hunters, Ashurbanipal's Palace

Assyrian archers , Central Palace, Nimrud, c. 728 BCE, now in the British Museum.

Iraq/Mesopotamia: Assyrian archers (detail), Central Palace, Nimrud, c. 728 BCE, now in the British Museum

Black Obelisk of Shalmaneser III. Limestone Assyrian sculpture. Bas-relief, 858-824 BC. Nimrud, Iraq. The tribute of Jehu, son of Omri . British...

Black Obelisk of Shalmaneser III. 858-824 BC. Nimrud, Iraq. The tribute of Jehu, Israel. Assyrians.

The Octagonal clay prism with the annals of the Assyrian king Tiglath-Pileser I . This text spoke of a campaign of king Tiglath-pileser against the...

The Octagonal clay prism with the annals of the Assyrian king Tiglath-Pileser I.

Mesopotamian Art. Middle Babylonian. Limestone kudurru from the riegn of Marduk-nadin-ahhe . Block of black limestone. Detail. Inscribed with...

Limestone kudurru from the riegn of Marduk-nadin-ahhe.

Cuneiforme writing. Fragment door. Description of king Adab-Nirari III . From Nimrud , Northerm Iraq. Neo-Assyrian. British Museum, London, United...

Description of king Adab-Nirari III.

Detail of the Standard of Ur, showing four-wheeled chariots and soldiers, from a Royal tomb at Ur, southern Iraq, about 2600-2400 BC. The main panels...

Detail of the Standard of Ur, showing chariots and soldiers, southern Iraq, about 2600-2400 BC.

The 'Peace' side of the Standard of Ur from a Royal tomb at Ur, southern Iraq, about 2600-2400 BC. Inlay of shell, red limestone, and lapis lazuli in...

The 'Peace' side of the Standard of Ur, southern Iraq, about 2600-2400 BC.

Cylinder seal and impression depicting two four winged sphinxes support the winged disk of Ahuramazda, Between them is a cresent disk enclosing the...

Cylinder seal and impression depicting two four winged sphinxes support the winged disk of Ahuramazda

Ivory inlay from Nimrud, One of the two identical pieces of which one is in the British Museum and the other was in Iraq, now missing. A lioness...

Ivory inlay from Nimrud

Votive offering. Fragment of a stone stele dedicated by Itur-Ashdum. First Dynasty of Babylon, c. 1760-1750 BC. Probably from Sippar, southern Iraq....

Fragment of a stele dedicated by Itur-Ashdum

Assyrian culture. The Black Obelisk of Shalmaneser III. Black limestone. Bas-relief depicting military campaigns and receiving tribute, 858-824 BC....

Black Obelisk of Shalmaneser III

Box within which the sun-god tablet and its covers were deposited by Nabopolassar. 620 BC-610 BC. Neo-Babylonian Dynasty. Abu Habba . Middle East....

Box within which the sun-god tablet and its covers were deposited by Nabopolassar

The Sun God Tablet. Limestone. The scene carved in the relief represents Nabu-aplu-iddina being led by the priest Nabu-nadin-shum and the goddess Aa...

The Sun God Tablet

King Ummanigash the Elamite King being saluted on arriving in Madaktu, detail from a relief from Ashurbanipal's Palace in Nineveh, Iraq. Assyrian...

King Ummanigash the Elamite King

Lion being freed from its cage, relief from Nineveh, Iraq. Assyrian civilisation, 8th Century BC. London, British Museum

A lion being freed from its cage

Relief depicting a hunting trip. Assyrian civilisation, 8th Century BC. London, British Museum

Relief depicting a hunting trip

Relief depicting a net to be used for catching deer. Assyrian civilisation, 8th Century BC. London, British Museum

Relief with a net to be used for catching deer

Gilgamesh Tablet written in cuneiform script. Artefact from Nineveh, Iraq. Babylonian civilisation, 5th Century BC. London, British Museum

Gilgamesh Tablet written in cuneiform script

King Ashurnasirpal II with attendants and a soldier, fired clay tile, Northwest Palace of Ashurnasirpal II, Kalhu/Nimrud, 9th Century BCE, British...

Iraq/Mesopotamia: King Ashurnasirpal II (883 - 859 BCE) with attendants and a soldier, fired clay tile, Northwest Palace of Ashurnasirpal II, Kalhu/Nimrud, 9th Century BCE, British Museum, London

Having excavated the ruins of Babylon and Nineveh, and unearthed countless artifacts that had lain undisturbed for some 2,730 years, the British...

Raft Conveying Winged Bull to Baghdad.

Basalt statue representing the ancient Mesopotamian god of weather Hadad, and dating back to 775 BC, is bathed in a red light, part of British artist...

GERMANY-BRITAIN-MUSEUM-ART

Lachish relief. South-West Palace of king Sennacherib in Nineveh, Iraq. Assyrian victory over the kingdom of Judah during the siege of Lachish in 701...

Lachish relief. Palace of Sennacherib, Nineveh, Iraq. Siege of Lachish, 701 BC.

Detail from an ancient Assyrian stone carving from Nimrud depicting a scene from the court of King Ashurnasirpal, in the British Museum, on 11th...

Assyrian Court Carving In The British Museum

Detail from a stone carving depicting the royal lion hunt of the Assyrian king Ashurbanipal, at the British Museum, on 11th April 2018, in London,...

Assyrian Lion Hunt Carving In The British Museum

Detail from a stone carving depicting the royal lion hunt of the Assyrian king Ashurbanipal, at the British Museum, on 11th April 2018, in London,...

Assyrian Lion Hunt Carving In The British Museum

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