Human-headed winged bull from Sargon II's palace in Dur-Sharrukin, modern Khorsabad. In art, Lamassu were depicted with bodies of either winged bulls or lions and heads of human males. Dur-Sharrukin (Fortress of Sargon?), present day Khorsabad, was the Assyrian capital in the time of Sargon II of Assyria. Khorsabad is a village in northern Iraq, northeast of Mosul. The great city was entirely built in the decade preceding 706 BC

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