Item Bonomi MSS 32.30 - 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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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)

Copyright Griffith Institute, University of Oxford

• 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.