wall panel; relief

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Object Type: wall panel; relief
Museum number: 124796,b
Description: Gypsum wall panel relief: carved, showing horses and grooms leaving Sennacherib's palace. The left horse is suddenly drawn back by a soldier, who is turning his head back; the second horse is being led by another soldier at its head; hindquarters of a third horse on the right.
Authority
Cultures/periods
Production date: 700BC-692BC
Excavator/field collector
Findspot: Excavated/Findspot: South West Palace (Nineveh), Room L1 (North) Panels 31-2
Materials
Technique
Dimensions: Width: 115 - 122 centimetres; Height: 160 centimetres
Curator's comments: In a set with 1851,0902.13a & c. 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 (577b-579b); Smith 1938d / Assyrian Sculptures in the British Museum from Shalmaneser III to Sennacherib (plate 66); Gadd 1936b / The Stones of Assyria: the surviving remains of Assyrian sculpture, their recovery, and their original positions (pp. 168-70); Hall H R 1928a / Babylonian and Assyrian Sculpture in the British Museum (pl. XXXII)
Location: On display (G10a/sB)
Subjects: horse/ass; groom; soldier
Acquisition date: 1851
Acquisition notes: Carried by ship Fortitude. For inventory, see WAA volume "Correspondence etc."
Department: Middle East
BM/Big number: 124796,b
Registration number: 1851,0902.13.B

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