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Bonomi MSS 32.30
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Iraq. Nineveh. South-West Palace of Sennacherib. Room V. Slab 43. Relief depicting an Assyrian fortified camp, c. 660-650 BC; sketch from gypsum slab in situ, but reported stolen in 1995
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(1796-1878)
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Relief depicting an Assyrian fortified camp, c. 660-650 BC; sketch from gypsum slab (no. 43) from Room V in the South-West Palace of Sennacherib at Niniveh in Iraq, left in situ, but reported stolen in 1995:
- pencil drawing on paper
- loose
- 37.1 x 23.6 cm
- [on sketch] 'Nº 39 Chamber C' (pencil note)
- [on sketch] 'Abth' (pencil note)
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Copyright Griffith Institute, University of Oxford
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- See Layard, Austen Henry, Nineveh and Its Remains (1849, 2nd ed.), vol. II, fig. on p. 469.
- See Russell, John Malcolm, The Final Sack of Nineveh (1998), esp. p. 15 with figs. 6-7 on p. 16-17; p. 42 with plates 178-179 on p. 181.