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The Winged Bulls at the Nergal Gate of Nineveh

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 August 2014

J. P. G. Finch
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The gate of Nergal in the northern wall of Nineveh has given rise to a curious archaeological puzzle. The best start for an exposition of its elements is to record the statements made by the various archæologists and writers who in the past have made mention of this gateway in Sennacherib's walled city, and then to compare them with each other, and with a recent examination of the actual remaining monuments that, during a residence in Mosul, I have had the opportunity to make, since the chance of a landslide in the spring of 1941, followed by excavation by the Antiquities department of the Iraq Government, has restored them to the light of day.

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Research Article
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IRAQ , Volume 10 , Issue 1 , Spring 1948 , pp. 9 - 18
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Copyright © The British Institute for the Study of Iraq 1948

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page 11 note 1 References to this gate, and to Layard's discoveries there, were made by King, L. W. in C.T., XXVI, introduction, p. 20 Google Scholar, and later in his Supplement to the Catalogue of the … Kouyunjik Collection in the British Museum, introduction, p. xxiii, also by Thompson, R. Campbell in Archœlogia, Vol. LXXIX (1929), 113 Google Scholar. None of these throws any light upon the subject discussed here.

page 11 note 2 For convenience of comparison this reproduction is given again here, Plate IV.

page 13 note 1 But compare the dramatic incident and illustration of Nineveh and its Remains, I, 66 Google Scholar.

page 14 note 1 This and the other photographs of the site and sculptures published with this article were taken during the excavations of 1941, conducted by the Iraqi Department of Antiquities; the prints were supplied by the courtesy, and are here reproduced by the permission, of the Director-General of Antiquities, to whom the cordial thanks of the author and the editor are hereby offered.