wall panel; relief

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Object Type: wall panel; relief
Museum number: 124798
Description: Gypsum wall panel relief; carved, showing three male servants carrying dried locusts, birds (probably partidges), and hares.
Authority
Cultures/periods
Production date: 704BC-681BC (circa)
Findspot: Excavated/Findspot: South West Palace (Nineveh), Room L1
Materials
Technique
Dimensions: Width: 158.50 - 166.50 centimetres; Height: 170.00 - 203.50 centimetres (approx)
Curator's comments: The arrangement of these slabs has been elucidated in Gadd, 'Stones of Assyria', pp. 168-70.
Bibliographic references: Barnett, Bleibtreu & Turner 1998a / Sculptures from the Southwest Palace of Sennacherib at Nineveh (568b); Smith 1938d / Assyrian Sculptures in the British Museum from Shalmaneser III to Sennacherib (pl. LXIX); Gadd 1936b / The Stones of Assyria: the surviving remains of Assyrian sculpture, their recovery, and their original positions (pp. 168-70); Budge 1922a / A guide to the Babylonian and Assyrian antiquities. (p. 54); Layard A H 1853a / Discoveries in the ruins of Nineveh and Babylon, with travels in Armenia, Kurdistan and the desert (opp. p. 40) (watercolour of slab)
Location: Not on display
Subjects: insect; mammal; bird; servant/domestic worker
Acquisition name
Acquisition date: 1851
Department: Middle East
BM/Big number: 124798
Registration number: 1851,0902.11
Conservation

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