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| Banquet Scene of Ashurbanipal, about 640 BC. British Museum |
The Getty Villa's 3-year loan of Assyrian antiquities from the British Museum, opening next month, will include the
Banquet Scene from Ashurbanipal's North Palace, which some consider the finest such relief anywhere. Writing
in the Art Newspaper, Martin Bailey attributes the unusually long-term loan to the British Museum's shortage of space for Assyrian objects. The 12 panels in the Getty loan were formerly shown in a BM basement gallery that closed in 2006. Getty Director Timothy Potts took his Ph.D. in Ancient Near Eastern archaeology and has sought to broaden the Villa's Greco-Roman focus with loans.
"Assyria: Palace Art of Ancient Iraq" runs at the Getty Villa Oct. 2, 2019, through Sep. 5, 2022.
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