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Relief of captive Babylonian women
Near Eastern, Mesopotamian, Assyrian
Neo-Assyrian Period, reign of Sennacherib
705–681 B.C.
Findspot: Iraq, Nineveh, South-West Palace
Medium/Technique
Gypsum
Dimensions
Width x length: 66 x 85 cm (26 x 33 7/16 in.)
Credit Line
Charles Amos Cummings Fund and funds donated by Horace L. Mayer
Accession Number60.133
CollectionsAncient Egypt, Nubia and the Near East
ClassificationsArchitectural elements – Relief
DescriptionThis scene depicts the deportation of defeated Babylonians to Assyria after one of Sennacherib's early campaigns against the Babylonian king Marduk-apla-iddina II (Merodach-Baladan). At center, a woman stops to give water to a small child from a water skin.
ProvenanceFrom Nineveh (Kuyunjik), South-West Palace, Room XIX, slab 3. By 1851: excavated by Sir Austin Henry Layard (probably 1849-51) and taken to Canford Manor, home of Sir John Guest, Layard's father-in-law; 1959: sold at Sotheby and Company, November 16, 1959; 1959: purchased by the MFA through Spink and Son.
(Accession Date: November 16, 1959)
(Accession Date: November 16, 1959)