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Image: Lahmu, the protective spirit from Nineveh, Mesopotamia.

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Description: Alabaster bas-relief depicting Lahmu, one of the Assyrian protective spirits. From the South-West palace at Nineveh, modern-day Ninawa Governorate, Iraq. Neo-Assyrian period, 700-692 BCE. The British Museum, London.
Title: Lahmu, the protective spirit from Nineveh, Mesopotamia.
Credit: Own work
Author: Osama Shukir Muhammed Amin FRCP(Glasg)
Usage Terms: Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0
License: CC BY-SA 4.0
License Link: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0
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