"palace" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Apkallu reliefs also appear in Assyrian palaces as guardians against evil spirits.
- Similar, but smaller figures had been used in Assyrian palaces for almost two centuries.
- A prominent presence is the winged bull, a protective spirit guarding Assyrian palaces and cities.
- The walls of Assyrian palaces were lined with sculptured and coloured slabs of stone, instead of being painted as in Chaldea.
- Massive amounts of ivory furniture pieces were found in many Assyrian palaces pointing to an intense trade relationship with North Syrian Neo-Hittite states at the time.
- The walls of the Assyrian palaces were lined with slabs of stone instead of brick, and were colored instead of painted as in Chaldea.
- The earliest examples are those shown in the bas-reliefs representing the Assyrian palaces, where they were employed as window balustrades and apparently had Ionic capitals.
- The palace, restored as a site museum, is one of only two preserved Assyrian palaces in the world, the other being Sennacherib's palace at Nineveh.
- Their history goes back to antiquity where they appear on sculptured panels in Assyrian palaces constructed between 700 and 900 BC.
- Possibilities include contacts between Athura and Persia were frequent and Achaemenid architects visited the Assyrian palaces.
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