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Object Type: relief
Museum number: 98064
Description: Large stone relief of a winged apotropaic creature with human body and eagle head, facing right and holding a bucket and a piece of fruit; band of cuneiform inscription of Ashurnasirpal II across the centre; repaired from fragments.
Authority: Ruler: Ashurnasirpal II
Cultures/periods: Neo-Assyrian
Production date: 883BC-859BC (between)
Production place: Made in: Iraq, North
Excavator/field collector: Excavated by: Sir Austen Henry Layard
Findspot: Excavated/Findspot: North West Palace, Room B slab 1
Materials: stone
Dimensions: Height: 217 centimetres; Height: 88 inches; Width: 167 centimetres; Width: 66 inches; Depth: 8 inches
$Inscriptions
Bibliographic references: Gadd 1936b / The Stones of Assyria: the surviving remains of Assyrian sculpture, their recovery, and their original positions (p.147); Paley S M 1976a / King of the World: Ashur-nasir-pal II of Assyria 883-859 B.C. (pl.20); Reade 1979b / Early Etched Beads and the Indus-Mesopotamia Trade (fig.12); Grayson, RIMA 2 / Assyrian Rulers of the Early First Millennium BC, I (1114-859 BC) (RIM.A.0.101.23.18)
Location: Not on display
Condition: Fair; repaired from fragments.
Subjects: bird; mythical figure/creature; fruit
Associated names: Named in inscription: Ashurnasirpal II
Acquisition name: Donated by: Library Committee of the City of London
Previous owner: Previous owner/ex-collection: Col R Taylor (?)
Acquisition date: 1903
Acquisition notes: Budge's Report to Trustees says that Layard presented this collection to the Guildhall but no. 7 (BM.98069) belonged to Colonel Taylor, Madras Cavalry so perhaps did the others (Zeitschrift Assryriologie 92 (2002), Reade no.5).
Department: Middle East
BM/Big number: 98064
Registration number: 1903,1012.2

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