id: 122979 accession number: 1943.246 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1943.246 updated: 2025-07-03 20:47:19.520000 Saluting Protective Spirit, 883–859 BCE. Neo-Assyrian (911–609 BCE), Iraq, Nimrud, Northwest Palace, reign of Ashurnasirpal II (883–859 BCE). Gypsum; overall: 229.9 x 137 cm (90 1/2 x 53 15/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund, 1943.246 title: Saluting Protective Spirit title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 883–859 BCE creation date earliest: -883 creation date latest: -859 current location: 102A Ancient Near East creditline: Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund copyright: --- culture: Neo-Assyrian (911–609 BCE), Iraq, Nimrud, Northwest Palace, reign of Ashurnasirpal II (883–859 BCE) technique: gypsum department: Egyptian and Ancient Near Eastern Art collection: Near Eastern Art type: Sculpture find spot: palace of Ashur-nasirapal II in Calah (Nimrud) catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS --- measurements: Overall: 229.9 x 137 cm (90 1/2 x 53 15/16 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: inscription: translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE Excavated by Austen Henry Layard at the palace of Ashur-nasirapal II in Calah (Nimrud) date: 1847 footnotes: citations: Gift of Dr. Henry John Lobdell (Class of 1849), to Amherst College date: 1847-1852/1856? footnotes: citations: Amherst College, sold in even exchange for lot of objects to Joseph Brummer Gallery date: 1885-1942 footnotes: citations: (Joseph Brummer Gallery, New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) date: 1942-1943 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 1943- footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI), no. P427317: Nimrud NW Palace Relief Slab S-06. page number: url: https://cdli.ucla.edu/search/archival_view.php?ObjectID=P427317 Englund, Klaudia."Room S", The Northwest Palace at Nimrud. Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). page number: S-6 url: https://cdli.ucla.edu/projects/nimrud/rooms/s.html Layard, Austen Henry. The Monuments of Nineveh: From Drawings Made on the Spot. London: J. Murray, 1849. page number: Plate 37 of vol. 1, Map: No. 9 Room S url: Malcolm, Vaughn. The International Studio (Feb. 1927) page number: url: Worcester Art Museum Bulletin (Oct. 1930) page number: url: Plough, Harold. "The Natural History of the Assyrian Bas-Reliefs." Amherst Graduate Quarterly (May 1934). page number: pp. 195-201 url: Hollis, Howard. "An Assyrian Relief of a Winged Deity." 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Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969. page number: Reproduced: p. 10 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n32 The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978. page number: Reproduced: p. 3 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n23 Tortora, Phyllis G., and Keith Eubank. A Survey of Historic Costume. New York: Fairchild Publications, 1989. page number: p. 18, fig. 2.5 url: The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1991. page number: Reproduced: p. 6 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1991/page/n21 Cleveland Museum of Art. Masterpieces from East and West. New York, NY: Rizzoli International, 1992. page number: p. 17 url: Tortora, Phyllis G., and Keith Eubank. A Survey of Historic Costume: A History of Western Dress. New York: Fairchild Publications, 1994. page number: p. 10, fig. 2.5 url: May, Sally Ruth, Jane Takac, and Barbara J. Bradley. Knockouts: A Pocket Guide. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2001. page number: No. 2, pp. 6-7 url: Cleveland Museum of Art, David Franklin, and C. Griffith Mann. Treasures from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2012. page number: pp. 31-31 url: Cleveland Museum of Art. The CMA Companion: A Guide to the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2014. page number: Mentioned and reproduced: P. 68-69 url: Biro, Yaëlle, Christine E. Brennan, and Christel H. Force. The Brummer Galleries, Paris and New York: Defining Taste from Antiquities to the Avant-Garde. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2023. page number: Mentioned: p. 485; reproduced: p. 487, fig. c..3 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1943.246/1943.246_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1943.246/1943.246_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1943.246/1943.246_full.tif