Abstract
In 1955, twelve Assyrian reliefs which the New York Historical Society had loaned to the Brooklyn Museum were bought by Mr. Hagop Kevorkian for Brooklyn and thus became part of the Museum's permanent collections.2 The Brooklyn Twelve originally decorated the walls of the Northwest Palace at Nimrud (Kalhu) at several different positions.3 Thus they provide a representative selection of figures which might have been carved by different sculptors. The figures were carved on different size stone blocks and were inscribed with the so-called Stand-
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