wall panel; relief

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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
Cultures/periods
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
Technique
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

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