The gate of the year

Relief from the Sargon II palace at Dur-Sharrukin (present day Khorsabad, Iraq), dating back to the VIII century B.C. and representing the Assyrian king in front of a flowering tree, probably a “tree of life”, symbol of fertility and generative power. The object is in the Louvre Museum, Paris.

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Relief from the Sargon II palace at Dur-Sharrukin (present day Khorsabad, Iraq), dating back to the VIII century B.C. and representing the Assyrian king in front of a flowering tree, probably a “tree of life”, symbol of fertility and generative power. The object is in the Louvre Museum, Paris. [Image: http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/media/121472/Stone-relief-depicting-Sargon-standing-before-a-tree-of-life]