- Title
- Fragment of a Painted Assyrian Relief
- Culture
- Assyrian
- 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)
- Accession Number
- M.71.73.23
- 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
- Mousavi, Ali. Ancient Near Eastern art at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2012.
