Human-headed winged bull (lamassu) (excavated at Nimrud, ancient Kalhu, Northern Mesopotamia, Neo-Assyrian period, reign of Ashurnasirpal, gift of John D. Rockefeller Jr., foto The Met Fifth Avenue)

Human-headed winged bull (lamassu) (excavated at Nimrud, ancient Kalhu, Northern Mesopotamia, Neo-Assyrian period, reign of Ashurnasirpal,  gift of John D. Rockefeller Jr., foto The Met Fifth Avenue)