The final sack of Nineveh : the discovery, documentation, and destruction of King Sennacherib's throne room at Nineveh, Iraq / John Malcolm Russell.

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Russell, John Malcolm.

Title & Author:

The final sack of Nineveh : the discovery, documentation, and destruction of King Sennacherib's throne room at Nineveh, Iraq / John Malcolm Russell.

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Description:

247 pages : illustrations (some color), map ; 30 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-247) and index.
1. Historiography. The Sources for this study. History of the excavations. Description of the documentation work -- 2. Sennacherib's throne-room suite. Architecture. Sculpture. Inscriptions -- 3. Patterns of destruction. Recommendations -- Catalogue of sculptures in Sennacherib's throne-room suite -- App. The Court H Colossus inscriptions.

Summary:

In the "Palace without Rival" at Nineveh, the Assyrian King Sennacherib immortalised his 701 B.C. campaign against Jerusalem with a series of spectacular wall relief sculptures. Amazingly, when the palace was rediscovered twenty-five centuries later in 1847, the sculpture in the throne room areas remained largely intact. But today, air pollution, animal damage, vandalism, neglect, and - worst of all - looting for the international antiquities market by Iraq's own sanctions-striken people, have brought ruin to the palace. The splendour of Sennacherib's palace now survives only in this irreplaceable book.
Art historian and archaeologist John Malcolm Russell, who in 1989 set about creating the only extensive photographic record of the palace architecture, sculptures, and inscriptions ever made, has preserved in pictures much that has since been lost. This book is not only a major contribution to the understanding of Assyrian palatial art and architecture, it is also the key to safeguarding the treasures of Sennacherib's palace and other ancient sites, for Russell proposes standards in archaeological excavation, documentation, and public policy that will help preserve cultural artifacts in an unstable world.

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Table of contents

ISBN:

0300074182
9780300074185 (cloth)

Subject:

Sanherib Assyrien, König v745-v680
Sennacherib, King of Assyria, -681 B.C. Palaces.
Sennachérib (roi d'Assyrie ; 07.-0681 av. J.-C.) Palais.
Sanherib (Assyrien, König)
Palace of Sennacherib (Nineveh)
Palais de Sennachérib (Ninive)
Sculpture, Assyro-Babylonian Iraq Nineveh (Extinct city)
Sculpture assyro-babylonnienne Irak Ninive (Ville ancienne)
Sculpture assyro-babylonienne Irak Ninive (Ville ancienne)
Antiquities.
Sculpture, Assyro-Babylonian.
Paleizen.
Reliëfs.
Sculpture assyro-babylonienne Irak Ninive (ville ancienne)
Assyria Antiquities.
Assyrie Antiquités.
Iraq Nineveh (Extinct city)
Middle East Assyria.
Palast Sanheribs
Nineveh (Extinct city) Palaces.
Nineveh (Extinct city) Antiquities.
Ninive (ville ancienne)
Irak Antiquités.
Ninive Palast Sanheribs.
Palace of Sennacherib Nineveh

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Location: Library main 176572
Call No.: DS70.5.N47 R86 1998
Status: Available

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