Solar disc on a bronze bowl
Bronze bowl
Over 150 bronze bowls were discovered in one room in a palace at Nimrud. They were made in Phoenicia (the modern Lebanese and Syrian coast) and brought to Nimrud as booty or tribute by one of the kings who campaigned in the west, perhaps Tiglath-pileser III (744 - 727 B.C.).
About 800 - 700 B.C.
From the North-West Palace, Nimrud, northern Iraq