An Assyrian Gypsum Relief Fragment, Nineveh, probably from the south-west Palace of Sennacherib, Reign of Sennacherib, 704-681 B.C.

carved in shallow relief with two soldiers facing left, each with beard arranged in rows of square curls, the soldier in front with large aquiline nose and almond-shaped eye, and wearing a conical helmet with ear-flap, the soldier behind him holding a mace(?) in his left hand, a sheathed dagger at his side.

said to have been acquired by the original owners prior to 1860
Spink & Son, London, 1985
New York private collection, 1986
Sotheby's, London, December, 3rd, 1991, no. 45, illus.
Frederick Schultz Ancient Art, New York, 1994
Sotheby's, New York, June 14th, 2000, no. 120, illus.

Frederick Schultz Ancient Art, New York, Mesopotamia, In the First Days, 1994, no. 28, illus.
Richard D. Barnett, Erika Bleibtreu, and Geoffrey Turner, Sculptures from the South-west Palace of Sennacherib at Nineveh, London, 1998, vol. 1, p. 141, no. 741, vol. 2, pl. 513
Christie's, New York, June 4th, 2008, no. 85, illus.

Lower right corner broken and repaired with minor resotrations along breakline, otherwise as shown.
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For a related relief scene see J. Reade, Assyrian Sculpture, Cambridge, 1983, fig. 69.