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The powerful Neo-Assyrian Empire influenced the surrounding region culturally as well as politically. In the west a number of small but powerful Aramaean city-states acted as a barrier between Assyria and the Mediterranean coast. These have been called Neo-Hittite city-states because of their dynastic continuity and relation to the preceding Hittites of Anatolia. These rival states were gradually brought under the control of the Neo-Assyrian Empire by military conquest.
Stone slabs carved in low relief had traditionally decorated the walls of the Neo-Hittite palaces and temples. Workmanship was often strong if crude. The figures were carved with little descriptive detail engraved on the surface, but it is nevertheless possible to detect, in some of the reliefs, the influence of Assyrian art in the choice of scene, the types of chariots and horse gear, and the galloping posture of the horses.
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7026. Orthostat relief: lion-hunt scene, Part 1
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7063. Orthostat relief: lion-hunt scene, Part 2
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Title: Orthostat relief: lion-hunt scene
Period: Neo-Hittite
Date: ca. 10th−9th century BCE
Geography: Syria, Tell Halaf (ancient Guzana)
Culture: Hittite
Medium: Basalt
Dimensions: 22 1/16 × 8 7/16 × 27 3/16 in., 434 lb. (56 × 21.5 × 69 cm)
Credit Line: Rogers Fund, 1943
Accession Number: 43.135.2
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Chronology
The Eastern Mediterranean, 1000 B.C.-1 A.D.
Museum Publications
Rayyane Tabet/Alien Property: The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, v.77, no. 2 (Fall, 2019)
The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Vol. 1, Egypt and the Ancient Near East
The Metropolitan Museum of Art Guide
Making The Met, 1870–2020
Guide to the Collections: Ancient Near Eastern Art
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- From Tell Halaf
- From 1000 B.C.–A.D. 1
Orthostates
Rayyane Tabet (Lebanese, born 1983)
2017-ongoing
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Ancient Near Eastern Art at The Met
Includes more than 7,000 works ranging in date from the eighth millennium B.C. through the centuries just beyond the time of the Arab conquests of the seventh century A.D.
