In 2002, on the eve of the Second Gulf War, the Centro Ricerche Archeologiche e Scavi di Torino, together with the State Board of Antiquities and Heritage of Iraq, the Central Restoration Institute in Rome and the Direction General for the Archaeological Heritage of Italy’s Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities, began a campaign for documenting and verifying the state of conservation of the structures of the royal suite (rooms I, IV, V) of Sennacherib's palace at Nineveh. The purpose of the project, unfortunately interrupted by the war, was that of assessing the natural damage caused by atmospheric agents and the mechanical damage caused by man. The almost complete photographic survey produced at that time is now published in this volume together with some contibutions on the ninevite reliefs presented by archaeologists and restorers.
The Sennacherib Wall Reliefs at Nineveh
LIPPOLIS, Carlo
2011-01-01
Abstract
In 2002, on the eve of the Second Gulf War, the Centro Ricerche Archeologiche e Scavi di Torino, together with the State Board of Antiquities and Heritage of Iraq, the Central Restoration Institute in Rome and the Direction General for the Archaeological Heritage of Italy’s Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities, began a campaign for documenting and verifying the state of conservation of the structures of the royal suite (rooms I, IV, V) of Sennacherib's palace at Nineveh. The purpose of the project, unfortunately interrupted by the war, was that of assessing the natural damage caused by atmospheric agents and the mechanical damage caused by man. The almost complete photographic survey produced at that time is now published in this volume together with some contibutions on the ninevite reliefs presented by archaeologists and restorers.
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