CIRCA 668-627 B.C., FROM THE NORTH PALACE OF ASHURBANIPAL, NINEVEH

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AN ASSYRIAN GYPSUM RELIEF FRAGMENT
CIRCA 668-627 B.C., FROM THE NORTH PALACE OF ASHURBANIPAL, NINEVEH
With a scene showing the siege of an Elamite city, depicting four Elamite archers shooting with bows from the top of the walls of a city, part of the leg of a fallen Elamite in the lower right corner, traces of a horizontal edging band above
6¾ x 7¾ in. (17.5 x 19.5 cm.)

來源

Collection of Friedrich Sarre (1865-1945), Neubabelsberg, near Potsdam, Germany.
Collection of H. M. Calman, London.
Collection of Edouard des Courières (1896-1987), acquired prior to 1957.

注意事項

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拍品專文

PUBLISHED:
E. Weidner, 'Die assyrischen reliefs in England', Archiv für Orientforschung, XII, Berlin, 1937-9, p. 328.
R. D. Barnett, Sculptures from the North Palace of Ashurbanipal at Nineveh (668-627 B.C.), The British Museum, London, 1976, pp. xv and 61, pl. LXXd, where the relief is recorded as seen by Barnett in the Calman collection, London, in 1947.

It is highly likely that the above relief came from the North Palace of Ashurbanipal at Nineveh, from where comes a relief with a similar scene of archers on battlements, cf. R. D. Barnett, op. cit., pp. 39-40, pl. XVII, for the Assyrian assault on the Elamite city of Hamanu, from Room F of the North Palace of Ashurbanipal, Nineveh, and now in The British Museum (BM 124931). However, Barnett also notes that some relief fragments may have come from the South-West Palace of Ashurbanipal.