wall panel;
relief
- Museum number
- 124875
- Description
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Gypsum wall panel relief: on the bottom a scene of hunting gazelle. Herd of gazelle disturbed by huntsmen; one looks round, tries to escape and is led into ambush; Ashurbanipal waits in a pit with a bow and shoots the leader down; also on the bottom row is a scene showing the hunting of wild asses; the king gallops forward, shooting at wild asses; one of the horsemen behind him has a supply of arrows while the other leads a spare mount; the asses are shot or pulled down by hounds; one is lassoed alive, probably for breeding. On the middle row is a lion hunt on horseback; Ashurbanipal drives a spear into one lion's mouth but another, which has been hit by arrows and left for dead, leaps up to maul the king's spare horse; attendants gallop to the rescue from the left; in the next episode, to the right, the king has killed both lions; some attendants admire them and others, kneeling in disgrace, probably allowed their horses to lag too far behind the king. The bottom row shows Ashurbanipal on foot, killing a lion; the lion is released from a cage by a small person, possibly a child, who has his own cage to hide in; the lion advances on the king and is hit by an arrow; finally, on the left, the king dispatches lion with sword.
- Production date
- 645BC-635BC
- Dimensions
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Height: 165.10 centimetres
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Width: 114.30 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- Plaster cast of detail made by BMCo (no.107): type cast stored with ANE casts at Blythe House (November 2006). The cast is listed as available in the British Museum Facsimile Service 'Catalogue of Replicas from British Museum collections' (n.d.), in the series "Assyrian Bas-Reliefs".
- Location
- On display (G10a/sC)
- Exhibition history
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2018-2019 8 Nov - 24 Feb, London, BM, I am Ashurbanipal, king of the world, king of Assyria
- Acquisition date
- 1856
- Department
- Middle East
- BM/Big number
- 124875
- Registration number
- 1856,0909.48
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: 107 (ex AS)
