Lammasu sculpture

Lammasu sculpture

Lammasu is a god in Mesopotamian mythology, typically depicted with the body of a bull or lion, wings of an eagle, and a human head. In art, Lammasu is depicted as a hybrid, a winged bull or lion with the head of a human male. This sculpture is located at the Pergamon Museum in Berlin. Lammasu's sculptures originated in the Sumerian period and later developed during the Asuro Akkadian period.