door-fitting
- Museum number
- 124661
- Title
- Series: The Balawat Gates
- Description
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Bronze band (one of 16 originally) from the palace gates of Shalmaneser III; from right door-leaf; decorated in a double register with an embossed and engraved figurative scene above and below which are borders within which are decorative rosettes which framed the dome-headed nails that held the band to the door-leaf; this band shows the king receiving tribute from Tyre and Sidon and the capture of the town of Hazazu in Syria.
- Production date
- 848BC (about)
- Dimensions
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Height: 27 centimetres
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Thickness: 0.10 centimetres
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Width: 180 centimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
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Bibliography:
L. W. King, ‘Bronze Reliefs from the Gates of Shalmaneser’, (London, 1915), 23, pls. XIII-XVIII.
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BM SHAL III R3
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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Exhibited:
2018-2019 8 Nov-24 Feb, London, BM, I am Ashurbanipal, king of the world, king of Assyria
2008-2009 21 Sept-4 Jan, Boston, MFA, 'Art and Empire'
2007 2 Apr-30 Sept, Alicante, MARQ Museum, 'Art and Empire'
2006 1 Jul-7 Oct, Shanghai Museum, 'Art and Empire'
- Acquisition date
- 1878
- Acquisition notes
- Some fragments purchased via the Paris dealer Hoffmann in 1879
- Department
- Middle East
- BM/Big number
- 124661
- Registration number
- Rm.1041
