Relief with Dromedary Rider
This relief was excavated in northern Syria at the site of Tell Halaf, the capital of a small independent city-state known as Guzana to the Assyrians, who conquered it in the late 9th century BCE. More than two hundred such stone reliefs (called orthostats) decorated the façad...
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Max von Oppenheim, 1911-1913 [excavated at the lower course of the exterior wall of the temple of King Kapara at Guzana, Tell Halaf, Syria and sent to the United States for sale]; Alien Property Custodian of the United States, by 1943; Walters Art Museum, 1944, by purchase [with the assistance of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York].
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| thumbnailUrl | https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL1_21.15_Fnt_TR_T85II.jpg |
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| largeImageUrl | https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL1_21.15_Fnt_TR_T85II.jpg |
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| sourceUrl | https://purl.thewalters.org/art/21.15 |
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