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Zigurat was the main form of the religious architecture would take root.
The brick use polychromes glass finishes was very common in this mesopotámic
stage. With the passage of time they became the typical neobabylonian
architectonic decoration, since the facades of the buildings were covered with
glassed ceramics. The tree of the life and the faucets (mythological animals
with eagle head and body of lion), that appears in cylindrical seals and
paintings murals of the palaces, can come from the hurrita art of Mitanni, to
the north of Mesopotámia. Unlike the old ones, the vegetal decorations became
streamlined and skillful. The symbolic images replaced the representations of
the Gods frequently. Tukulti-Ninurta I, king between years 1244 a. C. and 1207
a. C., ordered great part of the artistic and architectonic works that were made
in Assur, where also constructed its own palace-city, Kar Tukulti-Ninurta. In
the art of both establishments the difference between the Gods and the human
beings is accentuated. Frisk narrative, derivative of the scenes of wakes and
seals, asirio will be the more important artistic element of the art. The
genuine art asirio is going to unfold in the period neoasirio or delayed period
asirio (1000-612 a. C.), at the time of the great constructors. First of the
last important asirios kings it was Assurnasirpal II, that a. C. reigned from
the 883 to the 859, and turned the city of Nimrud (old Calach of the Bible)
military capital. Within the walls of Nimrud, that included an area near the 360
hectares, they raised city and the main real constructions, like the real palace
of the northwest, scenery with sculptures in relief. Sargón II, that reigned
between the 722 and the 705 a. C., took the reins of the empire from a city of
new plant, Dur Sharrukin (present Jursabad), that included 2.6 km2 and was
surrounded by a wall with seven doors, three of them decorated with relieves and
bricks glass finishes. Inside this enclosure was the palace of Sargón that
counted with more than 200 rooms and patios, a great temple, residences and
temples of smaller category. To its death part of the architectonic complex had
been only finished. Its son and successor, Senaquerib, that reigned between 681
years 705 and a. C., transferred the capital to Nínive, where it constructed his
own palace to which it denominated ' palace without rival', also known like the
palace the southwest. Assurbanipal that reigned from the 669 to the 627 a. C.
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