Cast Of Bas-Relief
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1893
name: label: Donor Name
content: World's Columbian Exposition
label: Site Name
content: Dur-Sharrukin
notes: label: Notes
content: PRIEST HOLDING POPPY STEM. WAS PREVIOUSLY INVENTORIED UNDER TEMPORARY NUMBER AT14954
label: Notes
content: These appear to be casts of reliefs from Dur-Sharrukin, present day Khorsabad, the Assyrian capital in the time of Sargon II of Assyria. Khorsabad is a village in northern Iraq, 15 km northeast of Mosul. Compare to Figs. 14 and15 in Albenda, Pauline.The palace of Sargon, King of Assyria: Monumental wall reliefs at Dur-Sharrukin, from original drawings made at the time of their discovery in 1843-1844 by Botta and Flandin, Editions Recherche sur les civilisations, 1986. http://digital.library.stonybrook.edu/cdm/ref/collection/amar/id/104451 .
label: Record Last Modified
content: 8 Oct 2019
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Khorsabad, Nineveh Governorate, Iraq, Asia
topic: label: Topic
content: Archaeology
culture: label: Culture
content: Assyrian
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 026818
label: USNM Number
content: A154745-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Cast