Title
Lamassu (winged, human-headed bull)
Subject
Bulls
Cattle
Livestock
Domestica Animals
Animals
Description
Colossal Gateway Figure, Palace of Assurnasirpal II, Mesopotamia, Assyria, Kalhu (present-day Nimrud, Iraq)
Creator
Unknown artist
Source
Stokstad, Marilyn
Art History, 3rd Ed., Upper Saddle River, N. J.: Pearson Education, 2008 (9780132368544)
Publisher
Department of Visual Studies
University at Buffalo
Date
ca. 720 - 705 BCE
BCE
Contributor
Joe Easterly
Rights
Type
statues
sculpture (visual work)
Still Image
Identifier
VS4030515
je-20071107-3
Date Created
2011-08-22
Date Modified
2011-08-22
Is Part Of
Media Resource Center
Visual Resources Collection
VS001
Extent
approx. 13 10 high
Medium
limestone
Spatial Coverage
Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, New York)
Temporal Coverage
Assyrian
Audience
AHI101
UB Only
Collection
Citation
Unknown artist, “Lamassu (winged, human-headed bull),” Digital Collections - University at Buffalo Libraries, accessed July 13, 2025, https://digital.lib.buffalo.edu/items/show/33774.