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Bronze bowl from Nimrud, sun disc, solar disc

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Solar disc on a bronze bowl from Nimrud

Bronze bowls from Nimrud

8th Century B.C.

These are part of a hoard found by Austen Henry Layard in 1850 - 1851 in the North-West Palace at Nimrud. They were probably deposited there in the 8th century B.C. The decoration on the bowls is Phoenician, very similar in many respects to that of the ivories. The bowls might have been tribute or taken as booty by the Assyrians during one of their campaigns to the West.

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Solar disc on a bronze bowl from Nimrud
Taken on  Monday 17th of August 2015
Device: OLYMPUS IMAGING CORP.
Model: SP800UZ
Genre:  8th Century B.C.
Source:  London, United Kingdom
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