wall panel;
relief
- Museum number
- 118829
- Description
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Burnt gypsum wall panel in relief: this frieze is remarkable for two features. Though the position of the archer as represented is possible, the rendering of the right arm seems unnatural. The variation in the size of the figures and the trees is remarkable in that it cannot be explained as due to a convention; this is not a case where the king is taller than his officers or common soldiers, or the Assyrians than the enemy. The figure of the archer looking for a target on this slab does not represent a man inferior in rank to the archers and men carrying dead game. The variation in size is effective from the point of view of design, especially in the case of the trees; but it must depend on the - not uncommon - knowledge of perspective. The small figure in this slab wears an unusual tunic, with a chequer design of concentric squares. The stone is broken in many places and discoloured. The portions which show black in the reproduction, in three of the large trees, the bare right arm of the archer and the lower part of the tunic of the small figure, are restorations.
- Production date
- 710BC-705BC
- Dimensions
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Height: 131 centimetres
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Length: 178 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- This hunting scene was part of a continuous frieze, of which another slab is in the Musée du Louvre; see 'Encyclopidié photographique de l' Art. Le Musée du Louvre', tome i (Paris, n.d.), 318.
- Location
- On display (G10c)
- Acquisition date
- 1851
- Department
- Middle East
- BM/Big number
- 118829
- Registration number
- 1851,0902.34
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: AT.831 (ex)