wall panel; relief

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Object Type: wall panel; relief
Museum number: 124954
Description: Gypsum wall panel relief: formed of three registers. The scene shows prisoners being driven by soldiers through groves of date palms accompanied by families and possessions. The top third of the upper register is missing.
Authority
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) Panels 7-9
Materials
Dimensions: Height: 199 centimetres (BM. 124954 only); Height: 1066.80 centimetres (total); Width: 196.20 centimetres (BM. 124954 only); Width: 213.36 centimetres (total)
Curator's comments: In set with BM.124953-124960 (all 1856,0909.1)
Bibliographic references: Barnett, Bleibtreu & Turner 1998a / Sculptures from the Southwest Palace of Sennacherib at Nineveh (345c); Paterson A 1915a / Assyrian sculptures, palace of Sinacherib [sic] (pls. 53-4 (centre)); Reade 1983b / Assyrian Sculpture (p. 42, fig. 60)
Location: On display (G9)
Subjects: tree/bush; prisoner; soldier; mammal
Acquisition date: 1856
Department: Middle East
BM/Big number: 124954
Registration number: 1856,0909.1
Additional IDs: Miscellaneous number: 2 (ex AS)
Conservation

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