Nirgul tablet

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The Nirgul tablet (also known as The Kerberos Relief or The Relief Image of Hades) is an ancient Mesopotamian relief carving of the deity Nergal found in the city of Hatra in Iraq, dating to the first or second century AD.{{cite book|last1=Drijvers|first1=H. J. W.|title=Cults and Beliefs at Edessa|date=1980|publisher=E. J. Brill|location=Leiden, The Netherlands|isbn=90-04-06050-2|page=105|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=69YUAAAAIAAJ&q=Nergal+Hatra&pg=PA105}}

The tablet was recovered from a room in the First Temple at the site where it had been encased in a wall.{{cite journal |last1= Fukai |first1= Shinji |date= 1960 |title=The Artifacts of Hatra and Parthian Art|journal= East and West |publisher= Herder|publication-place= Rome|volume=11 |issue=2–3 |page=156 |issn=0012-8376 |jstor=29754244 }}

Alongside the figure of Nirgul, a seated female figure is thought to depict the goddess Al-Lat.{{cite journal |last= Dirven|first=Lucinda |date= 2013|title=A Goddess with dogs from Hatra |url=http://dare.uva.nl/personal/pure/en/publications/a-goddess-with-dogs-from-hatra(6d2a1a1f-4ce1-410e-963b-cd0c3d3587bb).html |journal= Animals, Gods and Men from East to West|page= 150 |access-date= 18 July 2018}}

The tablet was destroyed in May 2015, by Islamic State militants, when they ransacked the Mosul Museum. Subsequently the tablet was digitally recreated using photogrammetry and various photographs as part of Project Mosul.{{cite news |last=Webb |first=Jonathan |date=19 May 2015 |title='Cyber-archaeology' salvages lost Iraqi art |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-32742622 |work= bbc.com |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20180421082107/https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-32742622|archive-date=21 April 2018 |access-date=18 July 2018 }}