Multaka in 4 Berlin museums
Refugees with Syrian or Iraqi backgrounds as museum mediators present their favorite objects, and what these mean for them and for the groups they guide.
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Gatekeeper figures from the Nimrod Palace in Ninevah in the Assyrian period (900 - 681 B.C.E.) in what is now northern Iraq. Casts of the originals that are in the British Museum in London. Lamassu (also šedu, shedu) is the term for protective spirits with the bodies of bulls, wings, and human heads.
Vorderasiatisches Museum (Museum of the Ancient Near East), Berlin.
© Photo: Haupt & Binder
Refugees with Syrian or Iraqi backgrounds as museum mediators present their favorite objects, and what these mean for them and for the groups they guide.