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Ancient Near East Galleries: Shining New Light on an Assyrian Palace Back to main page for this exhibition Kneeling Bull Holding a Spouted Vessel, 3100–2900 B.C.; Proto-Elamite period Southwestern Iran Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1966 (66.173) Head of a Ruler, 2300–2000 B.C. Iran (?) Rogers Fund, 1947 (47.100.80) Relief: King and Eunuch Attendant; Neo-Assyrian period, reign of Ashurnasirpal II (r. 883–859 B.C.) Northern Mesopotamia; excavated at Nimrud (ancient Kalhu) Gift of John D. Rockefeller Jr., 1932 (32.143.4) Nubian with Oryx, Monkey, and Leopard Skin, 8th–7th century B.C.; Neo-Assyrian period; Phoenician style Mesopotamia; excavated at Nimrud (ancient Kalhu), Fort Shalmaneser Rogers Fund, 1960 (60.145.11) Plate with King Hunting Rams, late 5th–early 6th century A.D.; Sasanian period Iran Fletcher Fund, 1934 (34.33)

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