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wall panel
;
relief
Object Type
wall panel
relief
Museum number
124777
Description
Gypsum wall panel relief: depicting Assyrian cavalry leading their horses through mountainous country, armed with lances and bows, and wearing the same corselet as the infantry.
Authority
Ruler:
Sennacherib
Cultures/periods
Neo-Assyrian
Production date
700BC-692BC
Excavator/field collector
Excavated by:
Sir Austen Henry Layard
Findspot
Excavated/Findspot:
South West Palace (Nineveh)
, Room XLV (D)
Materials
gypsum
Dimensions
Height:
63.50 centimetres
Width:
99 centimetres
Depth:
15.24 centimetres
(approx)
Bibliographic references
Barnett, Bleibtreu & Turner 1998a / Sculptures from the Southwest Palace of Sennacherib at Nineveh
(700b)
Smith 1938d / Assyrian Sculptures in the British Museum from Shalmaneser III to Sennacherib
(pl. XXXIXb)
Birch 1883 / Guide to the Kouyunjik Gallery
(pp. 59-60, no. 11)
Paterson A 1915a / Assyrian sculptures, palace of Sinacherib [sic]
(pl. 96, no. 11)
Gadd 1936b / The Stones of Assyria: the surviving remains of Assyrian sculpture, their recovery, and their original positions
(pp. 164-5)
(states the according to Layard this fragment came from a slab in Room D (XLV))
Location
On display
(G10a/sA)
Subjects
cavalry
landscape
arms/armour
Acquisition date
1848
Department
Middle East
BM/Big number
124777
Registration number
1848,1104.9
Additional IDs
Miscellaneous number:
11
(Ex.NG)