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wall panel
;
relief
Object Type
wall panel
relief
Museum number
124925
Description
Carved gypsum wall panel relief fragment: Assyrian soldiers, some on horseback, pursuing an Arab force armed with bows, arrows and short swords and wearing loincloths, perhaps of animal skin, through open country. Arab, in flight, falling from camel back; fallen figures prone on the ground. Upper portion missing.
Authority
Ruler:
Ashurbanipal
Cultures/periods
Neo-Assyrian
Production date
660BC-650BC
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 L (part of) Panel 11
Materials
gypsum
Technique
carved
Dimensions
Length:
45.72 centimetres
Width:
149.86 centimetres
Depth:
15.24 centimetres
Curator's comments
See also BM.124926 See also BM.124927
Bibliographic references
Barnett 1976 / Sculptures from the North Palace of Ashurbanipal at Nineveh (668-627 B.C)
(p.45, pl.XXXIII)
Reade 1998c / Assyrian illustrations of Arabs
(fig.5)
Barnett & Foreman 1959 / Assyrian Palace Reliefs and their Influence on the Sculptures of Babylonia and Persia
(pls.108-113, 115)
Location
Not on display
Exhibition history
Exhibited: 2018-2019, 8 Nov - 24 Feb, London, BM, I am Ashurbanipal, king of the world, king of Assyria 1996, 'Furusiyya' (cancelled)
Condition
Upper portion missing; surface is water stained and dirty with minor traces of old gallery paint (conservation assessment 94/5)
Subjects
war
soldier
cavalry
arms/armour
landscape
Acquisition date
1856
Department
Middle East
BM/Big number
124925
Registration number
1856,0909.31-32
Conservation
Treatment
: 04.07.1991