One of the recurring images in the Suzhou Museum exhibition is the lotus flower, which made its way onto the outer border of a carved stone slab that once served as the threshold of Ashurbanipal's ...
The great stone figures that today grace the Assyrian Gallery of the Bowdoin College Museum of Art were carved more than 2500 years ago for the palaces and temples of Ashurnasirpal II (883-859 B.C.), ...