Winged Genie Pollinating the Date Palm (Assyrian Relief)
Artist
Anonymous (Assyrian)
(Assyrian)
Date883–859 B.C.E, Reign of Ashurnasirpal
Period1st millennium BCE
MediumAlabaster
DimensionsObject size: 94 x 90 x 1 1/2 inches (238.8 x 228.6 x 3.8 cm)
Credit LineGift of Dr. Wilson A. Farnsworth, Class of 1848
The restoration of this relief was made possible in part by funds raised in 1989 by the Friends of Art at Middlebury College in celebration of their twentieth anniversary. Additional funds were provided by the Getty Grant Program and American Greetings.
Object number0.114
Curatorial DepartmentAncient Western Art
_Place of OriginIraq
Anonymous (Sumerian)
c. 883–612 B.C.E., Neo-Assyrian period, “Flat Style”
Object number: 2009.012.08
Anonymous (Sumerian)
c. 224–651 CE, Sasanian dynasty
Object number: 2009.012.14
Anonymous (Egyptian)
Egyptian, New Kingdom, late 18th–early 19th dynasty
Object number: 2016.140
Anonymous (Roman or Palmyrene Empire)
c. 250–273
Object number: 2009.002
Anonymous (Egyptian)
2520–2195 B.C.E., Old Kingdom, 5th-6th Dynasty
Object number: 2005.022
Anonymous (Roman)
210–220 C.E.
Object number: 1993.001
Anonymous (Cypriot)
c. 2000–1600 B.C.E., Middle Bronze Age, Middle Cypriote
Object number: 0.044.050