ID 1360648
Lot 62 | AN ASSYRIAN GYPSUM RELIEF FRAGMENT
Estimate value
$ 60 000 – 80 000
REIGN OF SENNACHERIB, CIRCA 705-681 B.C.
14 7/8 in. (37.7 cm.) high
Provenance
From the Southwest Palace, Nineveh, probably either Room XXXVIII or LX.
Lionel Désiré-Marie-René-François de Moustier (1817-1869), the French ambassador to Constantinople from 1861-1866; thence by continuous descent to Roland Marquis de Moustier (1909-2001), Château de Bournel, Cubry, France.
Private Collection, France, acquired from the above, circa 1948; thence by descent to the current owner.
Literature
Drawn in-situ by C. D. Hodder (1832-1926) prior to 1860 (preserved in the British Museum, inv. no. 2007,6024.512; his album Or.Dr.VI,9).
R.D. Barnett, E. Bleibtreu and G. Turner, Sculptures from the Southwest Palace of Sennacherib at Nineveh, London, 1998, vol. I, p. 108, no. 455; vol. II, pl. 365.
J.M. Russell, “Reviewed Work(s): Sculptures from the Southwest Palace of Sennacherib at Nineveh by Richard D. Barnett, Erika Bleibtreu and Geoffrey Turner,“ American Journal of Archaeology, vol. 104, no. 3, July 2000, p. 612.
G. Turner (J.M. Russell, ed.), The British Museum's Excavations at Nineveh, 1846-1855, Leiden, 2021, pp. 384-385, fig. 4.15.
| Medium: | Stone |
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| Place of origin: | Iran, Mesopotamia, Ancient Near Eastern, Asia, Assyrian Empire |
| Auction house category: | All other types of objects, Ancient Art & Antiquities |
| Medium: | Stone |
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| Place of origin: | Iran, Mesopotamia, Ancient Near Eastern, Asia, Assyrian Empire |
| Auction house category: | All other types of objects, Ancient Art & Antiquities |
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