Iraq / Mesopotamia: Openwork ivory plaque with a rampant goat eating a plant, Neo-Assyrian, Nimrud / Kalhu, c. 8th Century BCE, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Nimrud is the later Arab name for an ancient Assyrian city located 30 kilometres (20 mi) south of the city of Mosul in the Nineveh plains in northern Mesopotamia. It was a major Assyrian city between approximately 1250 BCE and 610 BCE.

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