wall panel; relief

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Object Type: wall panel; relief
Museum number: 124931
Description: Gypsum wall panel relief: above, capture of the Elamite city of Hamanu. Below, Elamite prisoners. Gap on either side perhaps for ventilation shafts for palace. There is an inscription of two lines in cuneiform. There is a square of relief missing in the top register.
Authority
Cultures/periods
Production date: 645BC-635BC
Excavator/field collector: Excavated by: Hormuzd Rassam; Excavated by: Sir Henry Creswicke Rawlinson; Excavated by: William Kennett Loftus; Excavated by: John George Taylor
Findspot: Excavated/Findspot: North Palace (Nineveh), Room F Panel 3
Materials
Dimensions: Height: 118 centimetres (Upper relief: capture of Hamanu); Length: 228.60 centimetres; Width: 140 centimetres (Upper relief: capture of Hamanu); Width: 215.90 centimetres; Depth: 15.24 centimetres
$Inscriptions
Curator's comments: In set with BM.124929-124937 (all 1856,0909.17-18).
Bibliographic references: Barnett 1976 / Sculptures from the North Palace of Ashurbanipal at Nineveh (668-627 B.C) (p.40, pl.XVII); Gadd 1936b / The Stones of Assyria: the surviving remains of Assyrian sculpture, their recovery, and their original positions (p.196); Yadin 1963 / The art of warfare in Biblical lands in the light of archaeological discovery (fig.448) (colour); Streck M 1916a / Assurbanipal und die letzten assyrischen Könige bis zum Untergange Niniveh’s I-III (vol.2, p.318K) (inscription)
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: architecture; siege; prisoner
Associated places: Topographic representation of: Hamanu; Named in inscription: Hamanu
Acquisition date: 1856
Department: Middle East
BM/Big number: 124931
Registration number: 1856,0909.17-18
Conservation: Treatment: 6/8/18; treatment; Treatment: 17 Oct 2019

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