#tell halaf

[tsalmu]

Figures (Gods?) Standing on Bulls and Lions Late Hittite Tell Halaf, Syria c. 900 BCE

Housed in the Syria-Aleppo Museum

Source: https://www.hittitemonuments.com/

[thatshowthingstarted]

Orthostat relief: seated figure holding a lotus flowerca. 10th−9th century B.C.

Basalt,

Dimensions: 22 1/16 × 8 7/16 × 27 3/16 in., 434 lb. (56 × 21.5 × 69 cm)

The Met Museum

[yavin42]

so i made a few ancient oriental memes when i was bored at uni 

[bagdemagus]

Gallery views from the exhibition “Royaumes oubliés: de l’empire hittite aux Araméens” at the Louvre, July 2019

[dwellerinthelibrary]

An orthostat (a stone taller than it is wider which stands up) at Berlin’s Pergamon Museum, originally from tell Halaf, Syria, and dating to the Ninth Century BCE.

[tsalmu]

Reliefs of Gazelle/Goat, a Deity (Kumarbi? Dagan?), and a Stag

Reliefs of a Male Harpy, Merman, and Winged Antelope

Reliefs of a Winged Lion-Headed Man (Demon?) and a Griffin

Late Hittite

Tell Halaf, Syria

c. 900 BCE

Housed in the Pergamon Museum, Berlin

Source: https://www.hittitemonuments.com/

[tsalmu]

Various Reliefs from Tel Hallaf, Syria c. 900 BCE

Housed in the Syria-Aleppo Museum

Source: https://www.hittitemonuments.com/

[panicinthestudio]

Exhibition Tour: Rayyane Tabet / Alien Property, November 12, 2020

Join contemporary artist Rayyane Tabet on a tour of his exhibition Rayyane Tabet / Alien Property, which tells the story of the ninth-century B.C.E. stone reliefs excavated in the early 20th century at Tell Halaf, Syria and their subsequent destruction, loss, or dispersal to museum collections around the world, including The Met. The exhibition examines the circuitous journey of The Met’s four reliefs, which came to the Museum under the aegis of the World War II–era Alien Property Custodian Act. It also highlights the very personal connection of the reliefs to contemporary artist Rayyane Tabet (born 1983).

In 2016, as part of his quixotic quest to re-unify the extant Tell Halaf frieze through his own artistic practice, Rayyane Tabet approached The Met with a request to produce charcoal rubbings of the Museum's reliefs. Tabet was inspired in part by his great-grandfather, Faek Borkhoche, who was hired by the French authorities under the French Mandate for Syria to be an administrator at the site of von Oppenheim’s excavation, but in actuality was sent to spy on the German excavator. Through his intervention in the Museum’s galleries of Ancient Near Eastern Art, Tabet seeks to explore the charged and entangled relationship between family stories, major political and social events, and the history of the encyclopedic museum.

Learn more about the exhibition: https://www.metmuseum.org/exhibitions...

The Met