On-line sources with jewelry
Tracy L. Spurrier Finding Hama: On the Identification of a Forgotten Queen Buried in the Nimrud tombs
https://www.journals.uchicago.edu
On-line sources with ivories
Herrmann, G., S. Laidlaw and H. Coffey, The Published Ivories from Fort Shalmaneser, Nimrud, 2004 [catalog]
Ivories from Nimrud south-western palace publication
On-line sources generally
Oates, D. and J. Oates, Nimrud: An Assyrian Imperial City Revealed, 2001 [jewelry, ivories, reliefs]
Website with sources related to Nimrud
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2015/02/online-resources-related-to-nimrud.html
Amy Gansell website https://amygansell.com/
Websites with pictures
AINA News
The Treasures of Nimrud in Pictures http://www.aina.org/news/20150306210942.htm
[10.05.2022 website is down]
Jewelry from the Queen’s tombs discovered in 1988 under the floor of the Royal Palace of King Ashurnasirpal II at Nimrud by an Iraqi archaeological team led by Muzahem Mahmoud, was on display at Baghdad’s National Museum for a few months before the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait in 1990, at which time it was put in storage at the Central Bank in Baghdad vault. It was feared looted along with many other priceless treasures of the museum until it was discovered in the bank storage in 2003.
Photos from 2003, after the treasure was re-discovered in the Central Bank of Iraq storage. The photos were posted on the website of the museum in Bagdad, but the website is currently down. [http://www.baghdadmuseum.org/secret_s/pages/284.htm]
Headdress
The headdress comes from Queen’s Tomb located in the North-West Palace in Nimrud. Dated to 9th-8th century BCE. Gold, agate, and lapis lazuli; l. of ribbon 40 cm. (ND 1989.5, Iraq Museum inv. no. 105696)
Pictures from the Baghdad museum website and after Amy Gansell https://amygansell.com/feminine-beauty-in-the-neo-assyrian-palace-at-nimrud-oxford/
“IRAQ – JULY 01: The treasures of Baghdad miraculously reappear in Iraq in July, 2003 – Discovery in 1988 – 1989 by Dr. Muzahim Mahmoud under the private apartments of the palace of Assurnasirpal II (9th century BC) in Nimrud. (Stored in the safe of the Central Bank of Iraq, on display from July 3, 2003 from 10:00 am to noon).”
Gold ornaments set with agates. (Photo by Marc DEVILLE/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images)
NECKLACES
BRACELETS, armbands and anklets
CROWNS
Photo by Marc DEVILLE/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images
Photo by Marc DEVILLE/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images
Crown discovered inside the third burial place (number 57). Solid gold (24/25 karats) from the mines of Upper Egypt and lapis lazuli from Afghanistan (from the Badakhshan mines). Bears an inscription: The daughter of the Mayor of the Palace, queen of the Palace, Melliso Mukhanashat Niniva, wife to King Assurnazirpal II. – Upper part of headdress bears grape leaf motif. – Head band area is adorned by two winged angels, symbols of death. – Frontal zone is decorated with pomegranate fruit and blossoms in lapis lazuli. Total weight: 1,003.2 grams, diameter: 24 cm, height: 16 cm.
Crown discovered inside the third burial place (sepulture number 57). Solid gold (24 – 25 karats) from the mines of Upper Egypt. Bears 36 rosette motifs. Weight: 216 grams, Diameter: 18 cm, Height: 8 cm. (Photo by Marc DEVILLE/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images)
MIRROR
Pictures: 2003, Baghdad Museum
(Photo by Matthew Schofield/Kansas City Star/Tribune News Service via Getty Images)
VESSELS
Glass / crystal quartz vessels. 2003, Baghdad Museum.
“The treasures of Baghdad miraculously reappear in Iraq in July, 2003 – Discovery in 1988 – 1989 by Dr. Muzahim Mahmoud under the private apartments of the palace of Assurnasirpal II (9th century BC) in Nimrud. (Stored in the safe of the Central Bank of Iraq, on display from July 3, 2003 from 10:00 am to noon). Solid gold ewer (24/25 karats) from the mines of Upper Egypt.” (Photo by Marc DEVILLE/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images)
Photos from 2003, after the treasure was re-discovered in the Central Bank of Iraq storage, miscellaneous objects. The photos were posted on the website of the museum in Bagdad, but the website is currently down.
- Nimrud: The Queens’ Tombs, Muzahim Mahmoud Hussein https://oi.uchicago.edu
- The Casualities of War: The Truth about the Iraq Museum, Matthew Bogdanos
American Journal of Archaeology, Vol. 109, No. 3 (Jul., 2005), pp. 477-526 (50 pages)
Published By: The University of Chicago Press https://www.jstor.org/stable/40026122
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