page_title: Ashurnasirpal II
section_title: Current location of Nimrud reliefs
hierarchical_section_title: Ashurnasirpal II / Current location of Nimrud reliefs
context_page_description: Ashur-nasir-pal II was king of Assyria from 883 to 859 BC.
  Ashurnasirpal II succeeded his father, Tukulti-Ninurta II, in 883 BC. During his reign he embarked on a vast program of expansion, first conquering the peoples to the north in Asia Minor as far as Nairi and exacting tribute from Phrygia, then invading Aram conquering the Aramaeans and Neo-Hittites between the Khabur and the Euphrates Rivers. His harshness prompted a revolt that he crushed decisively in a pitched, two-day battle. According to his monument inscription, while recalling this massacre he says:
  Their men young and old I took prisoners. Of some I cut off their feet and hands; of others I cut off the ears noses and lips; of the young men's ears I made a heap; of the old men's heads I made a minaret. I exposed their heads as a trophy in front of their city. The male children and the female children I burned in flames; the city I destroyed, and consumed with fire.
  Following this victory, he advanced without opposition as far as the Mediterranean and exacted tribute from Phoenicia. On his return home, he moved his capital to the city of Kalhu.
context_section_description: United States
  Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minnesota - Winged Genius
  Yale University Art Gallery, Connecticut - items of the collection
  University of Chicago Oriental Institute, Chicago - relief
  Mead Art Museum, Amherst, Massachusetts
  Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, Massachusetts
  Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts
  Brooklyn Museum, New York
  Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York - items of the collection
  Hood Museum of Art, Hanover, New Hampshire
  Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, Maryland
  Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas
  Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, Texas
  Saint Louis Art Museum, Missouri
  Nelson Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri
  Fleming Museum of Art, Burlington, Vermont
  Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, Maine
  Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, Palace of the Legion of Honor
  Los Angeles County Museum of Art
  United Kingdom
  British Museum, London
  Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge
  National Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh
  The Burrell Collection, Glasgow
  Europe
  Pergamon Museum, Berlin, Germany
  Staatliche Sammlung für Ägyptische Kunst, Munich, Germany
  Skulpturensammlung, Dresden, Germany
  Calouste Gulbenkian Museum, Lisbon, Portugal
  Royal Museums of Art and History, Brussels, Belgium
  Middle East
  Sulaymaniyah Museum, Iraq
  Erbil Civilization Museum, Iraq
  Museum of the Ancient Orient, Istanbul Archaeology Museums, Turkey
caption: Wall reliefs from the north west palace at the British Museum
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