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Removal of Lamaso

In 1842 Assyrians living in the mountains of Hakkari and Tiyari faced a massive attack by Bedir Khan's Kurdish troops , which resulted in the death of tens of thousands of Christian Assyrians.

Henry Lyard drew this sketch in 1847 while witnessing the removal of Lamaso. Read below the detailed description of how Lamaso was removed from its original place when discovered.

Let's not forget, this time period was a very bloody period for the Assyrians. While thousands of Assyrians were being massacred our Historical Icons were being taken. Nevertheless, The same way the kurds participated in our massacres they also participated in removing our antiquities.

According to sources, In 2003 during the instability that followed Iraq's loss, some Kurdish forces and other elements engaged in a looting rampage, pillaging regional museums and other cultural institutions, stealing some 4,000 items. At the National Museum of Iraq, perhaps the greatest storehouse of antiquities in the Middle East, "the 28 galleries of the museum and vaults with huge steel doors guarding storage chambers that descend floor after floor into unlighted darkness had been completely ransacked. Investigations stated that most of the artifacts were transferred across Europe through northern Iraq.

Inanna

 

 

Peace he with you. Your health and spirits are, please God, good. We have long been friends, although it has never yet been my good fortune to see you. I know the laws of friendship; that which is my property is your property, and the contrary. But there are a few things, such as mats, felts, and ropes, which come from afar, and are very necessary to me, whilst they can he of little use to you; otherwise God forbid that I should ask for them. You will greatly oblige me by giving these things to me.

When the sheikh denied he had these things, Layard slapped handcuffs on him and dragged him away from the tent. The following day, his fellow tribesmen produced Layard's goods.

In March he had begun the removal of the bulls:

The men being ready, and all my preparations complete, I stationed myself on top of the high bank of earth over the second bull, and ordered the wedges to he struck out from under the sculpture to he moved. Still, however, it remained firmly in its place. A rope having been passed around it, six or seven men easily tilted it over. The thick, ill-made cable stretched with the strain, and almost buried itself in the earth round which it was coiled. The ropes held well. The mass descended gradually, the Chaldaeans propping it up with the beams. It was a moment of great anxiety. The drums and shrill pipes of the Kurdish musicians increased the din and confusion caused by the war-cry of the Arabs, who were half frantic with excitement. They had thrown off nearly all their garments; their long hair floated in the wind; and they indulged in the wildest postures and gesticulations as they clung to the ropes. The women had congregated on the sides of the trenches, and by their incessant screams, and by the ear-piercing tahlehl, added to the enthusiasm of the men.

Source

Odyssey Adventures in Archeology

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