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 Winged Eagle-Headed Being (Genie); Neo-Assyrian period, reign of Ashurnasirpal II (r. 883–859 B.C.) Mesopotamia; excavated at Nimrud (ancient Kalhu) Alabaster (gypsum) Gift of John D. Rockefeller Jr., 1931 (31.72.3) |
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