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Bronze head of an Akkadian king, possibly Sargon of Akkad, with detailed curled beard and patterned hair, displayed on a white pedestal.
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Bronze head of an Akkadian king, possibly Sargon of Akkad, with detailed curled beard and patterned hair, displayed on a white pedestal.
bronze head of a king from Nineveh Bronze head of a king, perhaps Sargon of Akkad, from Nineveh (now in Iraq), Akkadian period, c. 2300 bce; in the Iraq Museum, Baghdad.

Iraq Museum

museum, Baghdad, Iraq
Also known as: National Museum of Iraq
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Iraq Museum, museum of antiquities located in Baghdad, Iraq, featuring Iraqi art and artifacts dating from the Stone Age civilization of the Fertile Crescent to the Middle Ages. Following World War I, archaeologists from Europe and the United States began several excavations throughout Iraq. To keep those finds from leaving Iraq, Gertrude Bell, a British intelligence agent, archaeologist, and director of antiquities in Iraq, in 1922 began collecting the artifacts in a government building in...

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