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wall panel
;
relief
Object Type
wall panel
relief
Museum number
93019
Description
Fragment of gypsum wall panel relief: showing two men carrying logs towards the left, and a bearded overseer who is urging the first to greater speed with a stick. Of a third labourer, only the hands holding two logs survive.
Authority
Ruler:
Sennacherib
Cultures/periods
Neo-Assyrian
Production date
704BC-681BC
(circa)
Findspot
Excavated/Findspot:
South West Palace (Nineveh)
Materials
gypsum
Dimensions
Length:
66.83 centimetres
Width:
27.94 centimetres
Curator's comments
Attached to 1966,0729.1 (BM.134862).
Bibliographic references
Guide 1900a / A Guide to the Babylonian and Assyrian Antiquities
(p.91)
Barnett, Bleibtreu & Turner 1998a / Sculptures from the Southwest Palace of Sennacherib at Nineveh
(180)
Reade 1979b / Ideology and propaganda in Assyrian art: a symposium on ancient empires
(fig. 18)
Location
On display
(G9)
Exhibition history
Exhibited: Babylonian & Assyrian Room (1900 Guide)
Subjects
tree/bush
society/human life
Acquisition name
Donated by:
Francis Edward Whelan
(1894)
Previous owner
Previous owner/ex-collection:
Rev Max Geneste
Previous owner/ex-collection:
Hormuzd Rassam
Acquisition date
1894
Acquisition notes
Donor recorded as F.E. Wheelan in 1900 Guide (p. 91). See also Trustees Minutes for 10 March 1894 for the record that the sculpture was presented to Geneste by Rassam in 1851.
Department
Middle East
BM/Big number
93019
Registration number
1894,0310.1
Conservation
Treatment
: 12 Jan 1996