Black Obelisk
825 BCE
Shalmaneser III (reigned 858–824 BCE)
Neo-Assyrian King
black limestone
bas relief

Excavator: Austin Henry Layard
Date of discovery: 1846
Original location: Calah/Kahlu (ancient Nimrud, now in northern Iraq)
Current location: British Museum

Photo source: Ira M. Price, The Monuments and the Old Testament, 1925.
British Museum