Stone statues of Mesopotamian winged bulls: Lamassu, or Kerub —*cherub in Latin, *kerubh [כְּרוּב] i

Stone statues of Mesopotamian winged bulls: Lamassu, or Kerub —*cherub in Latin, *kerubh [כְּרוּב] in Hebrew. In Akkadian, *karâbu: winged beasts, infuriated guardians of the sacred doors.1850s photograph of an excavation of the gate to the citadel of Dūr-Šarrukēn (now Khorsabad, northern Iraq), the Assyrian capital in the time of Sargon II ~ ca.706 BCE• via Bibliothèque Infernale on FB -- source link

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