CIRCA 8TH-7TH CENTURY B.C.

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AN ASSYRIAN GYPSUM RELIEF FRAGMENT
CIRCA 8TH-7TH CENTURY B.C.
17 1/2 in. (44.5 cm.) high

Provenance

Likely from the collection of the Bangor Theological Seminary, Bangor, ME, acquired in the late 19th-early 20th century (based on collection label possibly reading "From Nineveh" affixed to backside).
with Norman Hurst (1944-2011), Cambridge, MA.
with Carole Davenport, New York, acquired from the above, 1983.
Dr. Vallo Benjamin (1934-2021), New York, acquired from the above, 1983; thence by descent to the current owner.

Literature

"Dr. Vallo Benjamin, M.D., P.C. - Profile," Nineveh, vol. 18, nos. 1-2, 1995, p. 6, ill. cover.

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Lot Essay

This fragment preserves a raised border below which fans the branches of a date palm intertwined with grape vines with scrolling tendrils at their tips. For similar grape vines see the relief with lions relaxing in a garden from Ashurbanipal’s North Palace at Nineveh, now in the British Museum (fig. 239 in G. Brereton, ed., I am Ashurbanipal: King of the World, King of Assyria).

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