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whencyclopedia: “Face of a Colossal Figure from Nineveh This carved stone face probably belonged to a head of a sphinx. The Assyrian king Sennacherib ordered several colossal statues to be made in his new palace. Such giant statues were thought to...

whencyclopedia:

Face of a Colossal Figure from Nineveh

This carved stone face probably belonged to a head of a
sphinx
. The Assyrian king
Sennacherib
ordered several colossal statues to be made in his new
palace
. Such giant statues were thought to have a supra-natural protective power. From the south-west palace at
Nineveh
(modern Ninawa Governorate, Iraq), northern
Mesopotamia
. 700-695 BCE. (The British Museum).
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