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The British Museum - Nineveh Sculptures: Mask of Rabshakah, the King's Cupbearer, 1857. Creator: Unknown.

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The British Museum - Nineveh Sculptures: Mask of Rabshakah, the King's Cupbearer, 1857. Detail of a bas-relief from the South West Palace, the ancient Assyrian city of Nineveh, (in modern Iraq). '...the face from a round full-length portrait of one of the beardless attendants of Senacherib - very probably Rabshakah, the chief cupbearer of that Monarch whom he sent to Hezekiah'. Engraving, probably of an object described thus by the British Musuem: 'Stone sculpture; face of sphinx that probably belonged to the head of a colossal sphinx put together from different materials such as wood and bronze; regarded as having magical powers'. From "Illustrated London News", 1857.

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Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector

Notre référence

HRM23A76_494

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NA

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Droits gérés

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3,0Mo (281,6Ko) / 31,6cm x 40,7cm / 896 x 1154 (72dpi)

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