wall panel; relief

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Object Type: wall panel; relief
Museum number: 118872
Description: Gypsum wall-panel relief: winged human headed bull facing left; protective spirit; guarded entrance into what may have been the king's private apartments; inscription.
Authority
Cultures/periods
Production date: 865BC-860BC
Excavator/field collector
Findspot: Excavated/Findspot: North West Palace, Room S Door E Panel 1
Materials
Dimensions: Height: 309 centimetres; Length: 315 centimetres
$Inscriptions
Inscription subject
Curator's comments: Label reads: Winged human-headed bull Assyrian, about 865-860 BC From Nimrud, North-West Palace, Room S, door e, panel 1 This protective spirit guarded the entrance into what may have been the king's private apartments. The pair to it is in the Metropolitan Museum, New York. WA 118872
Bibliographic references: Layard A H 1849b / Nineveh and its Remains (vol.I, frontispece, vol. II, p.74); Budge 1914 / Assyrian Sculptures in the British Museum, Reign of Ashur-nasir-pal, 885-890 B.C (pl. V); Budge & King 1902a / Annals of the kings of Assyria (p.189ff.); Luckenbill 1927b / Ancient Records of Assyria and Babylonia (I. 515 ff.); Gadd 1936b / The Stones of Assyria: the surviving remains of Assyrian sculpture, their recovery, and their original positions (p.127); Grayson, RIMA 2 / Assyrian Rulers of the Early First Millennium BC, I (1114-859 BC) (RIM.A.0.101.2.5)
Location: On display (G8)
Exhibition history: Exhibited: Nimrud Central Saloon
Subjects: mammal; mythical figure/creature
Associated names
Acquisition date: 1850
Department: Middle East
BM/Big number: 118872
Registration number: 1850,1228.2
Additional IDs: Miscellaneous number: NCS.76 (exhibition number (Nimrud Central Saloon))
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