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wall panel
;
relief
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
Ruler:
Ashurbanipal
Cultures/periods
Neo-Assyrian
Production date
660BC-650BC
Findspot
Excavated/Findspot:
South West Palace (Nineveh)
, Room XXXIII Panels 4-6
Materials
gypsum
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
royal
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
Representation of:
Ummanigash
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
From:
Sir Austen Henry Layard
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))