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Ashurbanipal
King of Assyria (669-627)
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Sculpture
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Fred
Parhad
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USA (2000)
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Fred Parhad was born in Baqdad, Iraq, in 1947. He
rejected formal education in art at the University
of California at Berkeley and moved to New York.
There, he worked in art foundries and received
permission from Metropolitan Museum to sit and
sculpt copies of their extensive Assyrian
collection.
He was commissioned by Assyrian Foundation of Arts
to cast bronze monument, larger than life-size, of
Assyrian King Ashurbanipal. It was presented to
the City of San Francisco in 1988 and installed at
United Nations Plaza.
He has completed monument of Sumuramat for the
City of Chicago and then worked on Hammurabi for
Detroit.
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Sumuramat
(Shamiram)
(805-800 BC)
Model For Monument
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Sculpture:
USA
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