wall panel; relief

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Object Type: wall panel; relief
Museum number: 134386
Description: Gypsum wall panel relief fragment: four Babylonian or Chaldaean women, captured during an Assyrian campaign, wave their arms as they sit beside a table in a camp.
Authority
Cultures/periods
Production date: 645BC-635BC
Findspot: Excavated/Findspot: North Palace (Nineveh), Room S (Fallen into)
Materials
Dimensions: Height: 15 centimetres; Width: 22.10 centimetres
Curator's comments: In set with 1856,0909.52 (BM.124919). This fragment appears to show two women playing a board game resembling the 'Royal Game of Ur' with two others lokking on.
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
Condition: Fair; diagonal crack along the left side; mounted on a stone block with copper dowels top and bottom.
Subjects
Acquisition name
Acquisition date: 1964
Acquisition notes: Deposited 30/5/64 (entry 1722).
Department: Middle East
BM/Big number: 134386
Registration number: 1964,0711.1
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