wall panel; relief

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Object Type: wall panel; relief
Museum number: 124946
Description: Gypsum wall panel relief: above is the sack of an Elamite city, perhaps Susa in about 647BC; below, Ashurbanipal reviews booty from the capture of Babylon in 648BC. Above, Elamite booty is carried leftwards to be inspected by the Assyrian king and includes a wheeled throne and statues of bulls on carts. Below is the inspection of booty from Babylon, as described in cuneiform inscription. The king is his chariot is on a very big scale. In the middle row the Elamite king in a bulbous hat submits to Assyrians. At the bottom, men and women are marched away as prisoners.
Authority
Cultures/periods
Production date: 648BC
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 M Panel 13
Materials
Dimensions: Height: 215 centimetres (total 124945-6); Width: 343 centimetres (total 124945-6)
$Inscriptions
Curator's comments: In set with BM.124945 (also 1856,0909.34).
Bibliographic references: Barnett 1976 / Sculptures from the North Palace of Ashurbanipal at Nineveh (668-627 B.C) (p.47, pl.XXXV); Reade 1998c / Assyrian illustrations of Arabs (fig.7, p.230); Gadd 1936b / The Stones of Assyria: the surviving remains of Assyrian sculpture, their recovery, and their original positions (p.198, pl.26); Gadd 1934c / The Assyrian Sculptures (p.76); Reade 1964 / More drawings of Assurbanipal sculptures (pp.9, 11-13); Rawlinson H C & Norris E 1861a / The cuneiform inscriptions of Western Asia, I: a selection from the Historical Inscriptions of Chaldaea, Assyria, and Babylonia (pl.8, no.1) (inscription); Streck M 1916a / Assurbanipal und die letzten assyrischen Könige bis zum Untergange Niniveh’s I-III (vol.2, p.318L)
Location: Not on display
Exhibition history: 2018-2019, 8 Nov - 24 Feb, London, BM, I am Ashurbanipal, king of the world, king of Assyria
Subjects: war; royal/imperial; sculpture; king/queen; prisoner; charioteer/chariot
Associated names: Named in inscription & portrayed: Ashurbanipal; Named in inscription: Shamash-shum-ukin; Named in inscription: Ashur
Acquisition date: 1856
Department: Middle East
BM/Big number: 124946
Registration number: 1856,0909.34
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