Relief: Kneeling genie facing right (joins 1854.5)

883–859 B.C.

Not on view

Medium: Gypseous alabaster
Dimensions: 80.6 × 123.2 cm, 96.39 kg (31 3/4 × 48 1/2 in., 212.5 lb.)
Framed dimension: 34 1/2 × 51 1/8 × 2 1/4 in. (87.6 × 129.9 × 5.7 cm)
Credit Line: Yale University Purchase
Accession Number: 1854.4
Geography: Nimrud, Assyria, Iraq
Culture: Near Eastern, Assyrian
Period: Iron Age, Assyrian
Classification: Sculpture
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Provenance

Palace of Assurnasirpal II, Room I; purchased from the British Excavations at Nimrud.

Bibliography

Agnete Wisti Lassen, Eckart Frahm, and Klaus Wagensonner, eds., Ancient Mesopotamia Speaks: Highlights of the Yale Babylonian Collection, exh. cat. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale Peabody Museum, 2019), 193–96, 241–43, no. 72, ill

Ada Cohen and Steven E. Kangas, Assyrian Reliefs from the Palace of Ashurnasirpal II (Hanover, N.H.: University Press of New England, 2010), 7, 10, 22

Sotheby's, New York, Antiquities and Islamic Art, sale cat. (December 8, 1995), no. 146

Object copyright

Additional information

Inscriptions

2-line fragment of the "Standard Inscription" in a band below the figure.

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