Item Bonomi MSS 32.4 - 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 from gypsum slab now in London, British Museum, BM 124578 = 1849,0502.4

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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 on paper
• loose
• 15.1 x 23.9 cm
• [on sketch] 'From the N.W. Palace at once the best & most / ancient - Not destroyed by fire but suffered / from natural decay.' (pencil note)

Copyright Griffith Institute, University of Oxford

• 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