Neo-Assyrian wall panel
- Gallery: Room 10a
- Culture: Neo-Assyrian
- Date: 700BC-692BC
- Object type: wall panel, relief
- Materials: gypsum
- Museum number: 124902
- Museum: The British Museum
- Collection record: British Museum website
- Image © The Trustees of the British Museum, shared under a CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 licence.
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About this object
This is a Neo-Assyrian wall panel carved from gypsum. It shows a dynamic scene arranged in three rows. In the upper two rows, deportees appear to be moving rightward, likely forced from their homeland after an Assyrian conquest. The bottom row portrays soldiers in a rugged mountain landscape, riding and tending to their horses.
The panel is a fragment of original palace decorations from the South West Palace in Nineveh, dating to 700–692 BC. Its intricate relief style was used to visually narrate military campaigns, showcasing Assyrian dominance. Despite some missing fragments at the bottom, the details remaining capture the essence of Assyrian power and artistic achievement. The materials and carving techniques reflect the high craftsmanship typical of Neo-Assyrian art.
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Neo-Assyrian wall panel is on display in Room 10a at the British Museum on Great Russell Street, Bloomsbury, London — free to enter. Choose British Museum on audioguide.london and take a photo of it to hear this free audio guide in six languages — no app download needed.
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