Fragment of a Painted Assyrian ReliefNeo-Assyrian Dynasty (7th century B.C .)

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Title: Fragment of a Painted Assyrian Relief
Culture: Assyrian
Place Made: Northern Iraq
Date Made: Neo-Assyrian Dynasty (7th century B.C .)
Period: Neo-Assyrian
Medium: Limestone
Dimensions: 10 3/8 × 5 × 1 3/4 in. (26.35 × 12.7 × 4.45 cm)
Credit Line: The Phil Berg Collection
Accession Number: M.71.73.23
Classification: Sculpture
Collecting Area: Art of the Middle East: Ancient
Curatorial Notes: Khorsabad (ancient Dur-Sharrukin, or the City of Sargon) was founded around 710 BC by Sargon II (reigned 722-705 BC) and, like Nimrud, was an important Assyrian city. The site was excavated by French archaeologist Paul-Emile Botta between 1844 and 1846. Although the Louvre has the finest collection of Khorsabad materials, a number of sculptures from that site can be found in collections in England and North America. LACMA's fragment, probably from a large relief, depicts the head of an Assyrian sovereign, likely Sargon himself; it still displays exceptional traces of the pigments that once covered all Assyrian reliefs.
Selected Bibliography: Berg, Phil. Man Came This Way: Objects from the Phil Berg Collection. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1971.
Mousavi, Ali. Ancient Near Eastern art at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2012.

Not on view

Title: Fragment of a Painted Assyrian Relief
Culture: Assyrian
Place Made: Northern Iraq
Date Made: Neo-Assyrian Dynasty (7th century B.C .)
Period: Neo-Assyrian
Medium: Limestone
Dimensions: 10 3/8 × 5 × 1 3/4 in. (26.35 × 12.7 × 4.45 cm)
Credit Line: The Phil Berg Collection
Accession Number: M.71.73.23
Classification: Sculpture
Collecting Area: Art of the Middle East: Ancient
Curatorial Notes: Khorsabad (ancient Dur-Sharrukin, or the City of Sargon) was founded around 710 BC by Sargon II (reigned 722-705 BC) and, like Nimrud, was an important Assyrian city. The site was excavated by French archaeologist Paul-Emile Botta between 1844 and 1846. Although the Louvre has the finest collection of Khorsabad materials, a number of sculptures from that site can be found in collections in England and North America. LACMA's fragment, probably from a large relief, depicts the head of an Assyrian sovereign, likely Sargon himself; it still displays exceptional traces of the pigments that once covered all Assyrian reliefs.
Selected Bibliography: Berg, Phil. Man Came This Way: Objects from the Phil Berg Collection. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1971.
Mousavi, Ali. Ancient Near Eastern art at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2012.