The Perfumer of Ashur

Visual Inspiration

Header image: Artist’s impression of a hall in an Assyrian palace from The Monuments of Nineveh by Sir Austen Henry Layard, 1853; https://blog.britishmuseum.org/introducing-the-assyrians/

Frederick Charles Cooper. Drawing showing the winged bulls found by Layard at Nimrud. Watercolour on paper, mid-19th century. https://blog.britishmuseum.org/introducing-the-assyrians/

Imagined Assyrian Queen, from http://www.learningsites.com/NWPalace/queen_home.php
Imagined Assyrian Clothing from Wikimedia
The fall of Assur – the capital of the Neo-Assyrian Empire – at the hands of the Median-Babylonian alliance around 614 BC, Iraq

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