Fragment of Band from a Gate

859-824 BCE (Neo-Assyrian)

36.8 cm 9 cm 0.4 cm

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During the Neo-Assyrian period (911-612 BC), royal artists frequently depicted major military conquests. This bronze fragment, along with Walters 54.2335A, originally belonged to a 21 foot high wooden gate of a temple at Balawat, just northeast of the capital, Nimrud. Together...

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Hormuzd Rassam, by 1902, [mode of acquisition unknown] [54.2335B=Rassam Nb]. Joseph Brummer, Paris and New York, by 1925, by purchase [Brummer inv. no. P822; transfered to New York from Paris stock 1931]; Sale, Brummer Auction, New York, 1949, Part II, p. 19, no. 85; Walters Art Museum, 1949, by purchase.
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