wall panel;
relief
- Museum number
- 124545
- Description
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Gypsum wall panel relief: showing the crossing of a river. Ashurnasirpal II's boat is rowed across river and hauled ashore. The royal chariot is beside him and horses swim behind him. An attendant draws the king's attention to a captured town that appears on the next panel to the right. There is an inscription written in cuneiform script.
- Production date
- 865BC-860BC
- Dimensions
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Height: 100.50 centimetres
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Width: 216.40 centimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Inscription subject
royal
- 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 1848,1104.8 (BM.124543)
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
- 1849
- Acquisition notes
- Found by Layard; shipped to England on the 'Apprentice', arriving January 1849.
- Department
- Middle East
- BM/Big number
- 124545
- Registration number
- 1849,0502.7
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: NG.9b (ex Nimrud Gallery)