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John Malcolm Russell - The Final Sack of Nineveh: The Discovery, Documentation, and Destruction of King Sennacherib's Throne Room at Nineveh, Iraq

 
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John Malcolm Russell - The Final Sack of Nineveh: The Discovery, Documentation, and Destruction of King Sennacherib's Throne Room at Nineveh, Iraq
 
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In the "Palace without Rival" at Nineveh, ancient Assyrian King Sennacherib immortalized 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-stricken people, have brought ruin to the palace. The splendor 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 rbc palace architecture, sculptures, and inscriptions ever made, has preserved in pictures much that has since been lost. This book presents for the first time Russell's own photographs, along with new drawings of many of the throne room sculptures, old excavation photos, views
 
 

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Authors John Malcolm Russell
Nonfiction Category Art • Social Science
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  Ray, John, Times Literary Supplement: "Here the author collects every drawing and photograph he can make, or on which he can lay his hands, in an attempt to restore the throne-room of Sennacherib, not in reality but on paper....[the reader is] to be grateful for efforts such as John Malcolm Russell's to record what remains of that country's art, and to rescue it from greed and neglect."

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  Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Yale Univ Pr (October 01, 1998)
Measurements: 11.75"(h) x 10"(w) x 1"(d), 3.3 lbs.
ISBN: 9780300074185
 
 

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