Balawat Gates

9th century BC · Assyria

Hammered bronze bands that decorated huge wooden gates at Imgur-Enlil (Balawat, near Nimrud), showing the campaigns of Shalmaneser III.

Date

9th century BC

Civilization

Assyria

Found at

Nimrud

Where it is today

British Museum, London

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