wall panel; relief

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Object Type: wall panel; relief
Museum number: 124955
Description: Gypsum wall panel relief: showing prisoners being driven through groves of date palms. They come to the Assyrian headquarters; one soldier who has brought several enemy heads is rewarded with a bracelet; scribes take notes.
Authority: Ruler: Sennacherib; Ruler: Ashurbanipal
Cultures/periods
Production date: 640BC-620BC
Excavator/field collector: Excavated by: Hormuzd Rassam; Excavated by: William Kennett Loftus; Excavated by: John George Taylor; Excavated by: Sir Henry Creswicke Rawlinson
Findspot: Excavated/Findspot: South West Palace (Nineveh), Room XXVIII (FF) Panel 9
Materials
Dimensions: Height: 152.40 centimetres (1856,0909.3); Height: 1066.80 centimetres (total); Width: 163.20 centimetres (1856,0909.3); Width: 213.36 centimetres (total)
Curator's comments: In set with BM.124953-124560 (all 1856,0909.1)
Bibliographic references: Barnett, Bleibtreu & Turner 1998a / Sculptures from the Southwest Palace of Sennacherib at Nineveh (346c); Paterson A 1915a / Assyrian sculptures, palace of Sinacherib [sic] (pl. 54 (right)); Hall H R 1928a / Babylonian and Assyrian Sculpture in the British Museum (pl. XXXVII); Wiseman 1955 / Assyrian writing-boards (pl. III:2); Russell 1991 / Sennacherib's Palace Without Rival at Nineveh (p. 30, fig. 19) (detail)
Location: On display (G9)
Subjects: animal; jewellery; tree/bush; prisoner; soldier; scribe/calligrapher
Acquisition date: 1856
Department: Middle East
BM/Big number: 124955
Registration number: 1856,0909.1
Additional IDs: Miscellaneous number: 3 (ex AS)
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