Relief slab from the Palace of Ashurbanipal at Nineveh
- Title:
- Relief slab from the Palace of Ashurbanipal at Nineveh
- Collection:
- Cornell Cast Collection
- Creator:
- Unknown
- Photographer:
- Alexandridis, Annetta
- Date:
- ca. 1890-1920
ca. 645 BCE
2008 (image)
- Site:
- Nineveh (North Palace, room 1), Iraq (original)
- Location:
- Warehouse
Nineveh (North Palace, room 1), Iraq (original) - ID Number:
- CCC_0067
- Accession Number:
- 67
- File Name:
- CCC_0067.tif
- Original Measurements:
- 246 (H) x 304.6 (W) cm (complete slab)
- Culture:
- Assyrian
- Style/Period:
- Neo-Assyrian
- Work Type:
- casts (sculpture)
- Materials/Techniques:
- plaster cast (sculpture)
gypseous alabaster sculpture in relief (original) - Subject:
- Nineveh (Extinct city)
Ashurbanipal, King of Assyria, active 668 B.C.-627 B.C. - Image View Type:
- overall
- Image View Description:
- from front
- Measurement:
- with frame: 102.9 x 144.8 x 8.9 (centimeters, height x width x diameter)
- Description:
- This is a partial cast of a floor slab decorated in floral patterns in low relief from an entryway in the North Palace of Ashurbanipal at Nineveh. The original is housed in London. The cast preserves a section from the viewer's top left corner of the original slab, pictured upside down here. Several motifs are separated by narrow, plain bands. Along one edge (the upper in the original, the lower as shown here) a lotus and bud scroll is edged by a band of rosettes. Along the other edge (viewer's right as shown here) comes a rosette band, a lotus and bud scroll, and another rosette band. Both edges frame a continuous palmette scroll, which frames a central grid pattern of squares containing four lotus buds and four lotus flowers surrounding a rosette and with rosettes between squares. The pattern is meant to imitate carpet. Only one cast of a slab of this type is noted in the Sage Collection catalog and can be identified as ID no. 105 based on the location of the original in Paris. This cast is not mentioned in the Sage catalog but was perhaps acquired soon after no. 105 and/or was held with the architectural cast collection in Lincoln Hall.
- Notes:
- Items in the Cornell Cast Collection are meant for inventory and reference purposes. Metadata may not be complete in all cases.
no. 124962 or 1856,0909.57 - Bibliography:
- R. D. Barnett, Sculptures from the North Palace of Ashurbanipal at Nineveh (668-627 B.C.) (London: British Museum, 1976), 43, pl. XXVII
- Related Work:
- See also ID no. 105.
- Repository:
- Cornell University (current)
London, British Museum (original) - Collecting Program:
- Cornell Collections of Antiquities
- Format:
- Image
- Rights:
- The images in the Cornell Collection of Antiquities: Casts are protected by copyright, and the copyright holders are their creators, generally Cornell University Library, Annetta Alexandridis, and Verity Platt. This collection of plaster casts owned by Cornell University was photographed by Cornell University Library, Alexandridis, Platt, and Andreya L. Mihaloew from 2010-2015, with funding from a Digital Collections in Arts and Sciences Grant to Annetta Alexandridis. Cornell is providing access to the materials for research and personal use. The written permission of any copyright and other rights holders is required for distribution, reproduction, or other use that extends beyond what is authorized by fair use and other statutory exemptions. Responsibility for making an independent legal assessment of an item and securing any necessary permissions ultimately rests with persons desiring to use the item. Please contact Annetta Alexandridis and Verity Platt for more information about this collection, or to request permission to use these images.