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Abstract
Two walls of the inner court of Sennacherib's throne-room suite were lined with reliefs showing the quarrying and transport of human-headed bull colossi. Although individual slabs from this series have occasionally been reproduced as illustrations of ancient stone transport techniques, the architectural and historical contexts of the series as a whole have never been adequately considered. This study presents a reconstruction of the series and an explanation of its content, a discussion of its innovations in composition and perspective, and an analysis of the meaning of the series in the context of Sennacherib's imperial policy.
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John Malcolm Russell
John Russell's specialization is Assyrian art, and this is his first article on the subject. He is currently teaching ancient Near Eastern art and engaged in a collaborative study of Byzantine churches in Constantinople, 326–1453. He has also published on the iconography of the Friedsam Annunciation (Art Bulletin, 1978). [Department of Art History and Archaeology, Columbia University, New York, NY 10027]
