door-sill

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Object Type: door-sill
Museum number: 118910
Description: Gypsum door sill: carved as carpet, with rosette and lotus flower designs.
Cultures/periods: Neo-Assyrian
Production date: 645BC-635BC
Excavator/field collector: Excavated by: Hormuzd Rassam; Excavated by: William Kennett Loftus; Excavated by: Sir Henry Creswicke Rawlinson; Excavated by: John George Taylor
Findspot: Excavated/Findspot: North Palace (Nineveh), Room 1 Door B or D
Materials: gypsum
Technique: carved
Dimensions: Length: 109.22 centimetres (approx); Width: 152.40 centimetres (approx); Depth: 6.35 centimetres (approx)
Bibliographic references: Hall H R 1928a / Babylonian and Assyrian Sculpture in the British Museum (pl.LVI); Gadd 1936b / The Stones of Assyria: the surviving remains of Assyrian sculpture, their recovery, and their original positions (p.189); Barnett 1976 / Sculptures from the North Palace of Ashurbanipal at Nineveh (668-627 B.C) (p.43, pl.XXVII); Damerji 1987 / The Development of the Architecture of Doors and Gates in Ancient Mesopotamia (p.109)
Location: On display (G10c)
Subjects: flower
Acquisition date: 1856
Department: Middle East
BM/Big number: 118910
Registration number: 1856,0909.45
Conservation: Treatment: 01 Nov 1995

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