Relief: Eagle-headed genie watering sacred tree

Artist: Unknown

883–859 B.C.

Ancient Art

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

Period

Iron Age, Assyrian

Classification
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Provenance

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
  • 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. 71, 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
  • 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
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Additional information

Inscriptions

"Standard Inscription" in a band above the figure's head, 3 lines.

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