Collected by Raymond Pitcairn during the 1920s, the Assyrian reliefs in Glencairn’s Ancient Ne
Collected by Raymond Pitcairn during the 1920s, the Assyrian reliefs in Glencairn’s Ancient Near East gallery are “an exceptionally well-chosen group, representing diverse aspects of the religion, ideology, and artistry of the Assyrian Empire and typifying the development of the genre over time” (Eva Miller, University of Oxford). In this 2016 essay for Glencairn Museum News, Eva Miller examines the meaning of the images in these reliefs and how they have been received in both ancient and modern times: https://bit.ly/2D19XKF -- source link
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