Anzu pursued by Ninurta, palace relief, Nineveh

    Caption: "Depiction of Anzu (a bird beast) pursued by Ninurta (a Sun god, god of scribes), palace relief, Nineveh." (Slightly edited.)

    Also: "Ninurta with his thunderbolts pursues Anzu stealing the Tablet of Destinies from Enlil's sanctuary."

    The reliefs of Assyrian sculpture are the high points of surviving Assyrian art.

    Generally, Assyria was NOT well like by other peoples of ancient Mesopotamia. God did send a prophet to save Assyria---ah, Jonah.

    Credit/Permission: Austen Henry Layard (1817--1894), Monuments of Nineveh, 2nd Series, 1853 (uploaded to Wikimedia Commons by User:User:Georgelazenby 2012) / Public domain.
    Image link: Wikimedia Commons: File:Chaos Monster and Sun God.png.
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    File: Babylonian astronomy file: assyria_bas_relief_ninurta.html.