Adad-Nirari III in Syria. Another Stele Fragment and the Dates of His Campaigns
1973; Cambridge University Press; Volume: 35; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês
10.2307/4199951
ISSN2053-4744
Autores Tópico(s)Ancient Egypt and Archaeology
ResumoIn May 1879 Hormuzd Rassam left Mosul to explore the country around the Khabur river, rich in ancient sites. Among the places he visited was "the mound of Sheikh Hammad" where an Assyrian sculpture was said to lie. Rassam reported "I found the monument to be a representation of an Assyrian king on a black basalt tablet (supposed to be Shalmaneser II), but, unfortunately, the bas-relief had been broken, and only the head and shoulders of the figure were visible. This part of the monolith was covered with arrow-headed characters, which were very much defaced. It had been hurled down the mound by the Arabs … It is believed that the remainder of the tablet is buried on the top of the mound, and I intended, when I went back there on a future occasion, to search for it." No particular monument in the British Museum's collections is known to be the piece Rassam secured, but it was suggested in a marginal note by the late C. J. Gadd in the copy of Rassam's book owned by the Department of Western Asiatic Antiquities of the British Museum that BM 131124 might be one Rassam recovered from another mound not far away, mentioned in the succeeding part of his account, "a fragment of black basalt, whereon there were engraved a few hieroglyphic figures". The description of the stone from Sheikh Hammad fits the fragment BM 131124 so much better that there can be little doubt of its identity and consequently it may be referred to by the name "Sheikh Hammad stele".
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