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NM Ant 2339 :: relief, returned, deaccessioned

Object description

The more than two meter high relief is one of over 400 carved in the soft limestone called 'Mosul marble' that once covered the walls of the major rooms in the Northwest palace of the Assyrian capital Kalhu (Assyrianname) Calah (Biblical name) known today as Nimrud. The relief was excavated by the English in the middle of the 1800's. Assurnarsirpal II, the Neo-Assyrian king who ruled between 883-859 BC, built the palace. A smaller extension of one of the major dining rooms in the palace contained our wall relief and 18 other similar ones. All but one had the same subject as ours: a winged male protecting genie standing at a stylised tree. The exception was the panel opposite the entrance to the hall which portrayed the king. All traces of the original painting of the reliefs have disappeared.

The genies were portrayed in the same way as the king but have horns and wings instead of the king's crown. In one hand they carry a bucket, in the other a fertility symbol in the form of a pine cone. Across the middle section of this relief as on all the reliefs in the palace is a long cuneiform inscription about the war campaigns Assurnarsipal conducted and how he built the palace.

Data elements
References (31)

Serie nummer

796

Inventory number

NM Ant 2339

Previous ID

NM Ant 0856; NM Sk 0856

Object

relief; returned; deaccessioned

Object, Swedish

relief; återlämnat; avfört

Country - Findspot

Iraq : Asia

Place - Findspot

Nimrud

Material

Limestone

Exhibitions

ANE exhibit 2000, Kilskift ...1996

Acquisition

Gift from Widow Queen Josephine 1866

Description

Time - Manufacturing, earliest

884-859 BC

Name - Acquired from

Josefina, drottning av Sverige och Norge (1807 - 1876), Drottning av Sverige och Norge

Source - http: digitaltmuseum.org, collections.smvk.se
Source, Wikip. - is desc. by: sv.wikipedia.org
Source, Kulturnav - same as: kulturnav.org

Exhibition - Previously

Islamisk konst

Description: The Islamic exhibition and Islamic art
The Museum of Mediterranean and Near Eastern Antiquities also has the largest and only permanent exhibition of Islamic art in Sweden. The collection shows objects in ceramics, metal, wood and textiles as well as book illustrations and miniature painting. It elucidates Islamic art from AD 600 to AD 1900.
Islamic art is a world rich in shapes and colours both on the objects and in the décor. Arabesques and star patterns, calligraphic script, and the narrative pictures, illustrations to poetry, culture and science characterize the art. Islamic art and culture are heirs in southern and the eastern Mediterranean area to the Hellenistic, Roman, Persian and older Christian cultures.
The museum’s Islamic exhibition and extensive program activity aim to provide valuable knowledge for the understanding of Islam in Sweden – and in the world - today. (www.medelhavsmuseet.se, 2010-09-08)

Kilskrift och ryttarfolk

Time - Start: 1996-051996-05

Room 10, 1989-2008

Description: Room 10, Central hall, permanent exhibition. There have been some small changes during the years.
In 2006 the multiculture showcase was installed and the two other showcases were painted.
Time - Start: 19891989
Time - End: 20082008

Name - Owner

Nationalmuseum, Stockholm

Description: Nationalmuseum is a publicly owned cultural institution.Nationalmuseum%20is%20a%20publicly%20owned%20cultural%20institution.
Source - http: www.nationalmuseum.se, collections.smvk.se

Published text

Relief, Assyria, c. 875-860 BC Winged genie with pail and stylized tree from Ashurmasirpal II's palace in Nimrud (Northwest Palace, room L). The cuneiform inscription is a tribute to the king, listing his titles and achievements. It is repeated in many places in the palace. Gypsum Dime stone), in sls parts NMAnt 2339, Gift 1066 Dowager Queen Josefina (Nationalmuseum 2025);

Relief, Assyrien, ca 875-860 f. Kr.

Bevingad skyddsande med ämbar och stiliserat träd från Assurnasirpal II:s palats i Nimrud (Nordväst-palatset, rum L). Kilskriftsinskriptionen är en hyllning till kungen och räknar upp hans titlar och bedrifter. Den upprepas på många ställen i palatset.

Kalksten, i sex delar.

NMAnt 2339. Gåva 1066 änkedrottning Josefina. (utställningstext, Nationalmuseum, 2025)

Comments

See Swedish text Introduktion p.124 in separate documents.

Sometime before 2000 the relief was returned to Nationalmuseum and a copy was made in plaster (gypsum?). This copy was on display in "room 10".

NegNo

Ove Kaneberg

Cf Publications

Postgate 1992?, p.260

Publications

- H. Brising, Antik konst i Nationalmuseum, 1911, pl I-II

- Lobell 2002, p. 9

- Meuszynski & Sobolewski 1981, pp. 72, 73, 74, 75, 76,77, Tafel 17 N-15 , plan 8, plan 10 und 11;

- Paley & Sobolewski, 1992;

- Paley & Sobolewski, 1987 plan 2;

- Hallin, Ulrika, ’The Cradle of our Civilization’ in Bearing, The Soya group international magazine, no 3 2003, p. 22-25.

Loan in - Previously

in-1977.0002, Medelhavsmuseet

Length / Längd

212 cm

Width / Bredd

234 cm

Dimensions

234 x 212 cm.

Condition

Complete

Week - Object of the week

2014-07

Original register

WestAsia

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NM Ant 2339 :: relief, returned, deaccessioned

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