wall panel;
relief
- Museum number
- 118828
- Description
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Painted gypsum wall panel in relief: depicting a groom and horses. The attendant with horses is probably not an Assyrian. This panel was part of series of panels showing tribute being brought to Sargon II from Syria or Turkey. Very small traces of the original pigment survive.
- Production date
- 710BC-705BC
- Dimensions
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Height: 122 centimetres
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Width: 168 centimetres
- Curator's comments
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This fragment may come from the same frieze as fragments 1847,0702.13 (BM. 118827), 1847,0702.11 (BM 118830), 1847,0702.4 (BM. 118816), 1847,0702.12 (BM. 118818), 1847,0702.9 (BM. 118812) and 1847,0702.14 (BM. 118824).
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Other similar fragments will be found in the list in Gadd, 'Stones of Assyria', pp. 161-2.
- Location
- On display (G10c)
- Exhibition history
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Exhibited:
1996, 'Furusiyya' (cancelled)
- Condition
- Backed with slate and mounted within a plaster of Paris surround; vertical and horizontal factures travelling between the groom and his horse and along his right forearm; fine network of cracks on the surface and in some areas this is quite pronounced and has resulted in severe fissuring and partial loss of the surface (conservation assessment 94/5)
- Acquisition date
- 1847
- Department
- Middle East
- BM/Big number
- 118828
- Registration number
- 1847,0702.10
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: 830 (ex)
