Relief: Eagle-headed genie watering sacred tree

883–859 B.C.

Not on view

Medium: Gypseous alabaster
Dimensions: 109 × 77 cm, 70.76 kg (42 15/16 × 30 5/16 in., 156 lb.)
Credit Line: Yale University Purchase
Accession Number: 1854.3
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

James Prosek and Edith Devaney, James Prosek: Art, Artifact, Artifice, exh. cat. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 2020), 149, fig. 2.

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.

Samuel Harrelson, Asia Has Claims Upon New England: Assyrian Reliefs at Yale (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 2006), 22, 35, fig. 11, 18.

Susan B. Matheson, Art for Yale: A History of the Yale University Art Gallery (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 2001), 27–29, fig. 25.

Alan Shestack, ed., Yale University Art Gallery Selections (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 1983).

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