2-750-409 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Fragments of mural paintings from the palace of Tukulti-Ninurta I, Kar-Tukulti-Ninurta, Assyria, (1928). '1260-1240 B.C...The lighter tints show the reconstructed part. All the fragments come from the mural paintings of a palace which the Assyrian king Tukulti-Ninurta I (1260-123 8 B.C.) built in the city of Kar-Tukulti-Ninurta [modern Iraq] which was named after him'. After W Andrae. Plate XIV, figs 40-42, from "An Encyclopaedia of Colour Decoration from the Earliest Times to the Middle of the XIXth Century" with explanatory text by Helmuth Bossert. [Ernst Wasmuth Ltd., Berlin, 1928]