Brick Lion from the Neo-Babylonian Period, about 604-662 B.C.

BRICK LION FROM ca. 604-662 B.C.

CHICAGO.- Martha Roth, dean of humanities at the University of Chicago, and Gil Stein, director of the Oriental Institute at the university, examine one of two glazed molded brick lions from the Neo-Babylonian Period, about 604-662 B.C. in one of the institutes galleries in Chicago. Roth is the editor-in-charge of a project started 90 years ago by the institute to assemble an Assyrian dictionary based on words recorded on tablets unearthed in Iraq, Iran, Syria, and Turkey, and written in a language that hadnt been uttered for more that 2,000 years. The massive 21-volume collection is now complete. AP Photo/M. Spencer Green.

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