The cupola is decorated with primitive Germanic shapes, inspired by Egyptian and Assyrian sculpture.

Visiting the Met not long ago, he picked out the Assyrian sculptures by way of mentioning "Yellow Backdrop," a small relief he made in 1986.

The one for gigantic Assyrian sculpture isn't big enough.

There are suggestions of Arp, Gonzalez and Assyrian sculpture.

At the Museum he wrote his doctorate on the collection history and reception of the British Museum's Egyptian, Assyrian and Classical sculptures.

The Art Deco style and motifs draw on Greek and Assyrian sculpture.

It was employed, for instance, in Assyrian sculpture.

Assyrian sculpture reached a high level of refinement in the Neo-Assyrian period.

In 1845, having completely cleared out Khorsabad, he returned to France with a magnificent collection of Assyrian sculptures and cuneiform inscriptions.

Assyrian sculptures in northern Iraq were sawed up so the pieces could be taken out of the country, archaeologists said.