Relief fragment with warrior and horse

668-627 B.C.

Neo-Assyrian, reign of Ashurbanipal

Assyrian (modern Iraq)

Stone

7 7/8 x 10 1/4 in. (20 x 26.04 cm)

Overall h.: 17 1/4 in.

Overall w.: 22 1/4 in.

Eugene Fuller Memorial Collection

57.54

Provenance: Excavated in Room XXXIII of the Southwest Palace of Sennacherib at Nineveh, Iraq. [Jacob Hirsch, New York]; purchased from Mr. Hirsch by Seattle Art Museum (Eugene Fuller Memorial Collection funds from deaccession sale of Egyptian relief to Walters Gallery, Baltimore ["to complete a larger relief"]), January 4, 1957

Now on view at the Seattle Art Museum

Resources

Exhibition HistorySalem, Oregon, Willamette University, Hallie Ford Museum of Art, Breath of Heaven, Breath of Earth: Ancient Near Eastern Art from American Collections, August 31 - December 22, 2013

Published ReferencesThe Art Quarterly, Autumn 1957, p. 317, illus. p. 319

Barnett, Bleibtreu, Turner, (2-volumes) Sculptures from the Southwest Palace of Sennacherib at Nineveh (1998). Text pp. 99-100 (vol. 1); illus. pl. 320, no. 417 (vol. II).

Kawami, Trudy S., and John Olbrantz; Breath of Heaven, Breath of Earth: Ancient Near Esatern Art from American Collections, Hallie Ford Museum of Art, Williamette University, 2013. illus. pg 166

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