wall panel; relief

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Object Type: wall panel; relief
Museum number: 118931
Description: Gypsum wall panel relief: Assyrian soldiers move ⇨ carrying four statues of gods. Each image is carried by two pairs of soldiers who hold it on their shoulders by means of broad boards or poles. The first two statues represent goddesses sitting on high chairs, wearing long ornamented garments and holding a ring in their left hands. Of the third statue, which stands in a kind of box, only the front of the body, including the left hand holding a ring, is visible. The last statue is that of a god, apparently a weather-god, wearing a richly ornamented tunic and holding an axe in his right hand, a trident in his left. He has a long beard and on his head four horn-like projections, a unique feature. Forms part of an attack scene on enemy town by army of Tiglath-Pileser III, perhaps in Syria. The panel bears an inscription.
Authority
Cultures/periods
Production date: 728BC
Excavator/field collector: Excavated by: William Kennett Loftus; Excavated by: Hormuzd Rassam; Excavated by: Sir Henry Creswicke Rawlinson; Excavated by: John George Taylor
Findspot: Excavated/Findspot: Central Palace; Excavated/Findspot: South West Palace (Nimrud) (reused in)
Materials
Dimensions: Height: 272 centimetres; Width: 254 centimetres
$Inscriptions
Inscription subject
Curator's comments: Attached to 1884,0726.1 (BM.118934)
Bibliographic references: Barnett & Falkner 1962 / The Sculptures of Ashur-nasir-apli II (883-859 B.C), Tiglath-pilesar (745-727 B.C), Esarhaddon (681-669 B.C) from the Central and South-West Palaces at Nimrud (p.29, pls. LXXXVIII & XCIII); Gadd 1936b / The Stones of Assyria: the surviving remains of Assyrian sculpture, their recovery, and their original positions (p.158); Layard A H 1851a / Inscriptions in the cuneiform character, from Assyrian monuments (pl. 52) (inscription); Rost 1893b / Die Keilschrifttexte Tiglat-Pilesers III (pls. XI-XII) (inscription); Layard A H 1849a / The monuments of Nineveh, from drawings made on the spot (vol. 1, pl. 65) (drawing); Layard A H 1849b / Nineveh and its Remains (vol. 2, p.451) (drawing); Unger 1917 / Die Reliefs Tiglatpilesars III aus Nimrud (no. 21) (drawing)
Location: On display (G8)
Subjects: battle (?); siege (?)
Acquisition date: 1856
Department: Middle East
BM/Big number: 118931
Registration number: 1856,0909.212
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