wall panel;
relief
- Museum number
- 124543
- Description
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Gypsum wall panel relief: showing the crossing of a river. Horses swim, led by grooms, while a chariot, bed and jar are carried on coracles. Figures are shown complete and not half submerged which is typical of Assyrian art. There is an inscription written in cuneiform script.
- Production date
- 865BC-860BC
- Dimensions
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Height: 91.44 centimetres
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Width: 213.36 centimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
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In set with 1847,0623.7 (BM.124556)
In set with 1849,1222.23 (BM.124554)
In set with 1848,1104.20 (BM.124552)
In set with 1848,1222.6 (BM.124549)
In set with 1849,0502.8 (BM.124547)
In set with 1849,0502.7 (BM.124545)
In set with 1849,1222.22 (BM.124541)
In set with 1847,0623.10 (BM.124537)
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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
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Exhibited:
Nimrud Gallery
- Acquisition date
- 1848
- Acquisition notes
- Found by Layard; shipped to England in H.M.S. 'Jumna' after an adventurous earlier voyage (cf. 'Athenaeum' 1848, p.1152 f., no.14).
- Department
- Middle East
- BM/Big number
- 124543
- Registration number
- 1848,1104.8
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: NG.8b (ex Nimrud Gallery)
