wall panel; relief

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Object Type: wall panel; relief
Museum number: 124802,b
Description: Incomplete gypsum wall panel: Above: a scene showing courtiers and guards. Among the spectators are two short men in caps (ambassadors from Urartu); they re-appear on the right (in front of the king's chariot on the next relief). Below: Ummanigash is introduced as the new king of Madaktu, and Elamites welcome him; at the bottom, the River Ulai full of corpses and chariots. The relief bears an inscription written in cuneiform script.
Authority
Cultures/periods
Production date: 660BC-650BC
Findspot: Excavated/Findspot: South West Palace (Nineveh), Room XXXIII Panels 4-6
Materials
Dimensions: Length: 269.24 centimetres; Thickness: 14 centimetres (Total Tickness including mount of slate and brick: 14cm; Thickness of just relief: 0.7cm); Width: 142.24 centimetres
$Inscriptions
Inscription subject
Curator's comments: Mounted with 1881,0204.6 (BM.135122). In set with Sm.2497 (BM.135109).
Bibliographic references: Barnett, Bleibtreu & Turner 1998a / Sculptures from the Southwest Palace of Sennacherib at Nineveh (384c-386c); Allen 2005a / The Persian Empire: A History (p.18); Layard A H 1853b / A second series of the monuments of Nineveh; including bas-reliefs from the palace of Sennacherib and bronzes from the ruins of Nimroud, from drawings made on the spot, during a second expedition to Assyria (pls. 47-9); Paterson 1901-11 / Assyrian Sculptures (12 parts) (pls. LXXVI-LXXVII, CVI-CVII); Paterson A 1915a / Assyrian sculptures, palace of Sinacherib [sic] (pls. 65-6); Hall H R 1928a / Babylonian and Assyrian Sculpture in the British Museum (pl. XLV) (detail); Gadd 1936b / The Stones of Assyria: the surviving remains of Assyrian sculpture, their recovery, and their original positions (pp. 180-181); Frankfort H 1954a / The art and architecture of the Ancient Orient (p. 95, pl. 103); Barnett & Foreman 1959 / Assyrian Palace Reliefs and their Influence on the Sculptures of Babylonia and Persia (p. 31, pl. 129) (detail); Pritchard 1969a / The Ancient Near East in Pictures Relating to the Old Testament (no. 204) (slab 6); Barnett 1970 / Assyrian Palace Reliefs in the British Museum (p. 44); Barnett & Lorenzini 1975 / Assyrian Sculptures in the British Museum (pls. 155-64) (details); Reade 1976 / Elam and the Elamites (pls. 22, 24:1); Reade 1979a / Assyrian architectural decoration: techniques and subject-matter (pls. 19-20); Reade 1979b / Ideology and propaganda in Assyrian art: a symposium on ancient empires (p. 337, fig. 7) (detail); Lorenzini, de Maigret & Fozzati 1980 / Gli Assiri - La scultura dal regno di Ashurnasirpal II. al regno di Assurbanipal (pp. 126-30, nos. 64-6c); Gunter 1982 / Representations of Urartian and Western Iranian fortress architecture in the Assyrian reliefs (p. 106, fig. VIa); Reade 1983b / Assyrian Sculpture (pp. 61-5, figs 95, 97-8)
Location: Not on display
Exhibition history: 2018-2019 8 Nov-24 Feb, London, BM, I am Ashurbanipal, king of the world, king of Assyria
Subjects: ambassador; headgear/hairstyle; king/queen; charioteer/chariot
Associated names
Associated places: Associated with: River Ulai
Associated events: Associated Event: Battle of the River Ulai; Associated Event: Battle of Til-Tuba; Designed for: Peter
Acquisition name
Acquisition date: 1851
Department: Middle East
BM/Big number: 124802,b
Registration number: 1851,0902.7.b
Additional IDs: Miscellaneous number: 48 (exhibition number (Nineveh Gallery))

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