wall panel;
relief
- Museum number
- 124534
- Description
-
Gypsum wall panel relief: showing Ashurnasirpal II hunting lions. Two attendants, wearing conical helmets, and armed with bows and shields, stand ready is dispatch with their daggers the lion which is attacking the king at the back of his chariot.
- Production date
- 865BC-860BC
- Dimensions
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Height: 88.65 centimetres
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Length: 223.52 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- Moulded as a commercially available cast (listed in the BM Facsimile Service, Catalogue of Replicas). The cast is listed as available in the British Museum Facsimile Service 'Catalogue of Replicas from British Museum collections' (n.d.), in the series "Assyrian Bas-Reliefs".
- Location
- On display (G7)
- Exhibition history
-
Exhibited:
1996, 'Furusiyya' (cancelled)
- Condition
- Plaster of Paris fills and make-up around the edges which have been overpainted during renovation of gallery (conservation assessment 94/5)
- Acquisition date
- 1847
- Acquisition notes
- Found by Layard about May 1846; despatched from the site in December 1846; sent from Basra to Bombay in the 'Clive', thence to England on H.M.S. 'Meeanee' in August 1849.
- Department
- Middle East
- BM/Big number
- 124534
- Registration number
- 1847,0623.11
- Additional IDs
-
Miscellaneous number: 4a (ex Nimrud Gallery)
