wall panel; relief

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Object Type: wall panel; relief
Museum number: 124939,b
Description: Gypsum wall panel relief fragment: above middle horizontal band, a wooded hill, possibly parkland in Nineveh, with irrigation canals fed from an aqueduct. Below the horizontal line are three rows of Elamites hastening to right.
Authority
Cultures/periods
Production date: 645BC-635BC
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 H (part of) Panel 9
Materials
Dimensions: Height: 132.08 centimetres; Width: 58.42 centimetres
Curator's comments: In set with 1856,0909.37 (BM.124940).
Bibliographic references: Barnett 1976 / Sculptures from the North Palace of Ashurbanipal at Nineveh (668-627 B.C) (p.41, pl.XXIII); Rawlinson G 1871a / The five great monarchies of the ancient eastern world (3 volumes) (vol.1, p.310); Hall H R 1928a / Babylonian and Assyrian Sculpture in the British Museum (pl.XLIII); Frankfort H 1954a / The art and architecture of the Ancient Orient (pl.106); Gadd 1936b / The Stones of Assyria: the surviving remains of Assyrian sculpture, their recovery, and their original positions (pp.196-197); Reade 1964 / More drawings of Assurbanipal sculptures (pp.5, 11, 13)
Location: Not on display
Exhibition history: 2013 - 2014 22 June - 6 Jan, Toronto, Royal Ontario Museum, 'Mesopotamia, Inventing Our World' 2013: 30 Jan-13 May, Museum of History, Hong Kong, 'The Wonders of Ancient Mesopotamia' 2012: 4 May-7 Oct, Melbourne Museum, 'The Wonders of Ancient Mesopotamia'
Subjects: park; aqueduct/viaduct; soldier
Associated places: Topographic representation of: Kouyunjik (Nineveh)
Acquisition date: 1856
Department: Middle East
BM/Big number: 124939,b
Registration number: 1856,0909.36
Additional IDs: Miscellaneous number: 92 (ex AS)

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