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  • In the Assyrian hall visitors can also admire colossal limestone statues of human-headed, winged bulls called lamassu, dated to the eight and ninth centuries BC, that guarded the ancient cities of Nimrud on the River Tigris and Dur Sharrukin, modern-day Khorsabad.

    Assyrian International News Agency 2009

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  • Cuneiform: ‭↗, AN.KAL

    Akkadian

    May 3, 2011

  • Excellently iroquoisy. (We've been talking about Ur lately--see urzuzu.)

    May 3, 2011

  • Ur... I mean ur. I guess.

    May 3, 2011