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AN ASSYRIAN GYPSUM RELIEF FRAGMENT

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Lot 12 | AN ASSYRIAN GYPSUM RELIEF FRAGMENT
AN ASSYRIAN GYPSUM RELIEF FRAGMENT

REIGN OF SENNACHERIB, CIRCA 705-681 B.C.

6 5⁄8 in. (16.8 cm.) high





Provenance

From the Southwest Palace, Nineveh, probably Room XXXVIII, Slab 15 (formerly described as Slab 13).

Excavated between 1849-1851 under the direction of Sir Austen Henry Layard (1817-1894).

Sir John (1785-1852) and Lady Charlotte (1812-1895) Guest, Canford Manor, Dorset, acquired with the assistance from the above; thence by descent within the Guest family until 1923 when Canford Manor was converted into an independent school.

The Canford Assyrian Reliefs, Christie’s, London, 6 July 1994, lot 227.

Acquired by the current owner from the above.



Literature

Drawn by Frederick Charles Cooper during Sir Austen Henry Layard’s excavations of the Southwest Palace, circa 1849-1851 (British Museum inv. no. 2007,6024.46).

J. McKenzie, “Canford School,” in J.M. Russell, From Nineveh to New York: The Strange Story of the Assyrian Reliefs in the Metropolitan Museum and the Hidden Masterpiece at Canford School, New Haven and London, 1997, pp. 185-186, fig. 113.

T. Hoving, “A King’s Hoard,” The New York Times Book Review, 1 June 1997, p. 54.

R.D. Barnett, E. Bleibtreu and G. Turner, Sculptures from the Southwest Palace of Sennacherib at Nineveh, London, 1998, vol. I, p. 94, no. 378; vol. II, pl. 284.

G. Turner, “Sennacherib's Palace at Nineveh: The Drawings of H. A. Churchill and the Discoveries of H. J. Ross,” Iraq, vol. 63, 2001, p. 126.

G. Turner (J.M. Russell, ed.), The British Museum's Excavations at Nineveh, 1846-1855, Leiden, 2021, p. 313.



Exhibited

New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1995, 1999-2022.

Jerusalem, Bible Lands Museum, A Capital for All Times: Royal Cities of the Biblical World, 17 January-31 December 1996.
Medium:Stone
Place of origin:Mesopotamia, Ancient Near Eastern, Assyrian Empire
Category:Fragment
Auction house category:Ancient Art & Antiquities
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