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Bonomi MSS 32.17
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Iraq. Nimrud (Kahlu). North-West Palace. Room I. Panel 20. Relief depicting a female winged protective spirit facing left, wearing a two-horned hat and holding a chaplet, performing an act of worship (?), c. 865-860 BC; sketch/tracing from gypsum slab now in London, British Museum, BM 124578 = 1849,0502.4
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(1796-1878)
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Relief depicting a female winged protective spirit facing left, wearing a two-horned hat and holding a chaplet, performing an act of worship (?), c. 865-860 BC; sketch from gypsum slab (panel 20) from Room I in the North-West Palace at Nimrud (Kahlu) in Iraq, now in London, British Museum, BM 124578 = 1849,0502.4:
- Pencil sketch/tracing on tracing paper
- loose
- 15.3 x 24.8 cm
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Copyright Griffith Institute, University of Oxford
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- Bonomi, Joseph, Nineveh and Its Palaces (1852), p. 268, fig. 157.
- See http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/collection_object_details.aspx?objectId=367061&partId=1&searchText=north-west+palace+wall&images=true&page=1