AN ASSYRIAN GYPSUM RELIEF FRAGMENT

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ID 888459
Lot 7 | AN ASSYRIAN GYPSUM RELIEF FRAGMENT
AN ASSYRIAN GYPSUM RELIEF FRAGMENT

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

22 in. (55.8 cm.) long





Provenance

From Room LXX at the Southwest Palace, Nineveh.

Antiquities, Sotheby's, London, 13 July 1970, lot 20.

Strohl, acquired from the above (according to auctioneer's book).

with Baron Frederic (Freddy) Roland (1919-2001), New York.

Dr. Vallo Benjamin (1934-2021), New York, acquired from the above, 1981; 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.

R.D. Barnett, E. Bleibtreu and G. Turner, Sculptures from the Southwest Palace of Sennacherib at Nineveh, London, 1998, vol. I, p. 132, no. 650c; vol. II, pl. 469.
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