Keywords: Ninhursag1.jpg Bull-man protecting a palmtree female deity partially destroyed reconstructed panel of molded bricks Terracotta middle 12th century BC Found at the Tell of the Apadana in Susa The inscription running along the central band record that Shilhak-Inshushinak made a statue of brick for the exterior chapel of Inshushinak Homme-taureau protégeant un palmier déesse Panneau de briques moulées terre cuite milieu du XIIe siècle av J -C Trouvé à Suse dans le tell de l'Apadana salle d'audience Museum Louvre Department of Oriental Antiquities Sully ground floor room 10 Prudence Oliver Harper Joan Aruz Françoise Tallon The royal city of Susa ancient Near Eastern treasures in the Louvre Metropolitan Museum of Art 1992 ISBN 9780810964228 p 282 Daniel T Potts The archaeology of Elam formation and transformation of an ancient Iranian state World Archaeology Series Cambridge University Press 1999 ISBN 9780521564960 p 240 object history credit line Excavated by Roland de Mecquenem 1913 “1921 accession number Sb 14390 Sb 14391 undated photograph after 1949 of a 12th century BC relief other versions File Bull-man protecting palmtree Louvre 14390-91 jpg scanned from an unknown book by Gevork Nazaryan PermissionOTRS 2007072210012812 ;Artwork PD-old-100 ;Photograph GFDL review Susa 12th-century BC reliefs Near Eastern Antiquities in the Louvre - Room 10 Middle Elamite period |