Assyrian Empire - 2024 PLAYTIME @ JHU

Question

The problematic collection of the British Museum includes many reliefs from this empire discovered by Austen Henry Layard. For 10 points each:

[10e] Name this empire of the ancient Near East home to the Library of Ashurbanipal in its capital of Nineveh.

ANSWER: Assyrian Empire [accept Neo-Assyrian Empire]

[10m] While conducting excavations in Assyria, Layard found many of these statues of winged human headed bulls, which were often found in pairs at the entrances of buildings. Their male counterparts are called shedu.

ANSWER: lamassu

[10h] This ethnically Assyrian archaeologist worked as Layard’s assistant during the excavations of Nimrud and Nineveh. He is credited with discovering the clay tablets containing the text of the Epic of Gilgamesh.

ANSWER: Hormuzd Rassam

<SM, Ancient History>

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2025 PLAYTIME @ CWRU	12/10/2024	Y	5	16.00	100%	60%	0%
2025 PLAYTIME @ Claremont	12/10/2024	Y	5	16.00	100%	60%	0%
2025 PLAYTIME @ Florida	12/10/2024	Y	3	20.00	67%	100%	33%
2024 PLAYTIME @ Harvard	04/26/2025	Y	4	20.00	100%	100%	0%
2024 PLAYTIME @ JHU	10/26/2024	Y	3	20.00	100%	100%	0%
2025 PLAYTIME @ Northwest	12/10/2024	Y	4	12.50	100%	25%	0%
2025 PLAYTIME Online	04/26/2025	Y	8	17.50	100%	63%	13%
2025 PLAYTIME @ Sheffield	12/10/2024	Y	7	11.43	86%	29%	0%
2024 PLAYTIME @ UBC	10/05/2024	Y	8	13.75	88%	50%	0%
2024 PLAYTIME @ Virginia Tech	07/11/2025	Y	3	16.67	100%	67%	0%
2024 PLAYTIME @ WashU	10/12/2024	Y	5	18.00	100%	60%	20%

Data


Rutgers	George Mason C	10	10	20
NYU A	George Mason A	10	10	20
CWRU	Haverford A	10	10	20