AN ASSYRIAN LIMESTONE RELIEF OF KING TIGLATH-PILESER III, the head of the bearded king shown in profile to the right, wearing tall conical headdress, 8th Century B.C., 745-727 B.C.

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AN ASSYRIAN LIMESTONE RELIEF OF KING TIGLATH-PILESER III, the head of the bearded king shown in profile to the right, wearing tall conical headdress, 8th Century B.C., 745-727 B.C.
27.5 x 19½in. (70cm. x 49.5cm.) max., 2in. (5cm.) deep

Provenance

The Central Palace, Nimrud; when Sir Henry Layard excavated the site of this palace he found only heaped up sculptured slabs ready to be reused in a later palace of Esarhaddon

Acquired by the present owner's grandfather in England

Lot Essay

Tiglath-Pileser III was responsible for the miltary resurgence of Assyria whose conquests included Syria and Palestine; he was succeeded by his son, Sargon II.

BIBLIOGRAPHY:
R. D. Barnett and M. Falkner, The Sculptures of Tiglath Pileser III, London, 1962; R. D. Barnett, Assyrian Palace Reliefs in the British Museum, British Museum, London, 1970, front cover illus.; H. Frankfort, The Art and Architecture of the Ancient Orient, 1970, pls. 94-95

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