Stele of Naram-Sin

c. 2200 BCE

Sippar. Found at Susa.

Limestone. 6'6''

Musée du Louvre, Paris. 

Carved Vessel from Uruk

(Warka vase)

c. 3300-3000 BCE

Warka, Iraq. 

Alabaster. 36"

Iraq Museum, Baghdad. 

Lure from Royal Tombs in Ur

2550 BCE

Ur, Iraq

Wood with gold, silver, lapis lazuli, shell

Stele of Hammurabi

c. 1790-1750 BCE

Susa, Iran

Diorite, 7'

Musée du Louvre. 

Assurnasirpal II Killing Lions

875 BCE

Palace complex of Assirnaspiral II, Kalhu (Nimrud), Iraq

Alabaster, 39"

British Museum

Enemies crossing the Euphrates to escape Assyrian archers

c. 875 BCE

Palace complex of Assurnasirpal II, Kalhu (Nimurd), Iraq

Alabaster, 39"

British Museum 

Assurbanipal and his Queen in the garden

c. 647 BCE

Palace at Ninevah (Kuyunjik), Iraq

Alabaster, 21"

British Museum

Ishtar Gates

c. 575 BCE

Babylon

Glazed brick, 40' with towers at 100'

Vorderasiatisches Museum, Berlin

Ceremonial Complex, Persepolis

518-460 BCE

Iran