Bas-relief from Palace of Tiglath-Pileser III, 746–727 BCE
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Sandstone or gypseous alabasterexpand_more
The Alfred F. Pillsbury Fundexpand_more 57.42
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This Assyrian relief of a city under siege comes from the palace of Tiglath-Pileser III at Nimrud. English archaeologist and diplomat Sir Austen Layard unearthed it during a mid-19th-century excavation. Two Assyrian soldiers mounting a ladder at the left attack the fortifications; one spears a man on a turret as an ally of the victim throws down stones. Two other soldiers are falling from the towers of the upper and lower gates on the right.
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- Title
- Bas-relief from Palace of Tiglath-Pileser III
- Role
- Artist
- Dimension
- 38 5/8 in. (98.11 cm)
- Accession Number
- 57.42
- Provenance
- Provenance: ['] Excavated by Sir Henry Austen Layard, Nimrud, Iraq by 1851.[1] [I. Élias Géjou (1868–1942), Paris, '1920s or 1930s] [2]. [Galerie Bing, Paris, '1930s]. [Elie Borowski, Basel, Switzerland (until 1957), sold, December 1957, to the Minneapolis Institute of Art] [1] Layard excavated at Nimrud 1845-1847 and 1849-1851 on behalf of the British Museum [2] Identified in a photo album of artefacts belonging to Géjou, according to Dr Nadia Aït Saïd-Ghanem; see email in object file dated 6/23/22
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