Ancient Assyria and Neo-Babylonia
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Glasgow Museums has a collection of 19 artefacts from the Ancient Assyrian and Neo-Babylonian Periods. These date broadly from 1243 to 562 BC. This collection contains rare gypsum reliefs from royal palaces at Nimrud and Nineveh, which have cuneiform inscriptions and depict religious rituals and scenes of warfare. There is also a baked clay brick, plus a cast, that records the building of the ziggurat at Nimrud. Seven gypsum relief fragments from the north and south-west palaces at Nineveh include a relief depicting the head of an Assyrian warrior. The collection also notably holds a clay administrative tablet dating to the Middle Assyrian Period, which is inscribed in cuneiform Akkadian and records the loan of a bronze object from the palace of the Assyrian king Tukulti-Ninurta I (1243–1207 BC). Neo-Babylonian objects include five baked clay bricks, a horned lion’s head from a broken terracotta amulet, and two stone weights. The Amorite First Dynasty of Babylon was ended by the Hittites in 1595 BC, and by the mid 14th century BC Assyria in northern Mesopotamia asserted its independence from Babylon. For the next seven and a half centuries the kings of Assyria and Babylonia vied for overall control of Mesopotamia.
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