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Texts and sculptures from the North-West Palace, Nimrud

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 August 2014

J. E. Reade
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Over the last quarter century the North-West Palace of Ashurnasirpal II at Nimrud, which was once treated as a building of minor interest, has been the object of three large books and several scholarly articles. Much of this progress has been due to the work of the Iraq authorities who have re-excavated the state apartments and collaborated with the Polish scholars, Janusz Meuszyński and Ryszard Sobolewski, in making detailed plans available for publication (Fig. 1). One area in particular, which we now understand better, is the west wing of the state apartments. At the request of Meuszyński, I once promised to gather together what information I could find in London concerning the west wing and the sculptured panels found there, and this article is dedicated to his memory. It has taken a different form from that originally envisaged, as a study of the sculptured rooms not covered in Meuszyński's own book (1981) is now being prepared jointly by Sobolewski and Samuel Paley. What I present here is information derived from unpublished copies of cuneiform inscriptions, and some fresh evidence and observations relating mainly to Ashurnasirpal's narrative sculptures. The inscriptions are ones which were once built into the structure of the palace; they were recorded by the original excavator, A. H. Layard, in a notebook (Layard, Ms. A) which is now preserved in the Department of Western Asiatic Antiquities at the British Museum.

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IRAQ , Volume 47 , 1985 , pp. 203 - 214
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Copyright © The British Institute for the Study of Iraq 1985 

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