Fragments of Bands from a Gate

859-824 BCE (Neo-Assyrian)

28 cm 10 cm 0.4 cm

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During the Neo-Assyrian period (911-612 BCE), royal artists frequently depicted major military conquests. These two bronze fragments originally belonged to a 21 foot high wooden gate of a temple at Balawat, just northeast of the capital, Nimrud. Together with nearly 265 feet o...

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