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wall panel
;
relief
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
Ruler:
Ashurbanipal
Cultures/periods
Neo-Assyrian
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
gypsum
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