wall panel; relief

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Object Type: wall panel; relief
Museum number: 124919
Description: Gypsum wall panel relief: incomplete. Showing parts of three compositions; city of Hamanu in middle register; some men carry off booty including an elaborate throne, and others demolish walls with rams and picks; flames rise from the ruins. Traces of human heads on the upper and dividing band indicate re-ruse. The rough left edge of this panel indicates that it stood at the corner of a room.
Authority
Cultures/periods
Production date: 645BC-635BC
Excavator/field collector: Excavated by: Hormuzd Rassam; Excavated by: Sir Henry Creswicke Rawlinson; Excavated by: John George Taylor; Excavated by: William Kennett Loftus
Findspot: Excavated/Findspot: North Palace (Nineveh), Room S (Fallen into)
Materials
Dimensions: Height: 168 centimetres; Length: 172.72 centimetres; Width: 68.58 centimetres; Depth: 15.24 centimetres
Curator's comments: In set with 1964,0711.1 (BM.134386).
Bibliographic references: Barnett 1976 / Sculptures from the North Palace of Ashurbanipal at Nineveh (668-627 B.C) (p.58, pl.LXVI); Paterson 1901-11 / Assyrian Sculptures (12 parts) (1907 vol., pl.LXII, LXX-LXXI); Gadd 1936b / The Stones of Assyria: the surviving remains of Assyrian sculpture, their recovery, and their original positions (p.192); Gadd 1934c / The Assyrian Sculptures (p.74); Hall H R 1928a / Babylonian and Assyrian Sculpture in the British Museum (pl.XLIV); Von der Osten H H 1956a / Die Welt der Perser (pl.21); Yadin 1963 / The art of warfare in Biblical lands in the light of archaeological discovery (fig.446) (colour)
Location: Not on display
Exhibition history: Exhibited: 2020 20 Feb-25 Oct, CaixaForum Zaragoza, An Age of Luxury 2019-2020 18 Sep-12 Jan, CaixaForum Madrid, An Age of Luxury 2019 4 Apr-11 Aug, CaixaForum Barcelona, An Age of Luxury 2018-2019, 8 Nov - 24 Feb, London, BM, I am Ashurbanipal, king of the world, king of Assyria 2018 9 May-3 Sep, Hong Kong History Museum, An Age of Luxury
Subjects: mammal; war
Associated places: Topographic representation of: Hamanu
Acquisition date: 1856
Department: Middle East
BM/Big number: 124919
Registration number: 1856,0909.52
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