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A 3000-year old bas relief was hammered downwards for $31 1000000 ($35 mil. alongside the buyer's premium) at Christie's.
CNN—formerly a Ted "colorized" Turner property— glommed onto the digital rendering that Christie's had created.

year old bas relief was hammered downwards for  Art: There Are The Old Masters too Then There's This

From NPR:
Record-Setting Sale Of An Ancient Assyrian Stone Relief Sparks Looting Fears In Iraq
Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 bidding nation of war at Christie's this calendar week sent the toll of a 3,000-year-old rock relief from $7 1000000 to to a greater extent than than $28 million, setting a Blue Planet tape for ancient Assyrian artworks too raising fears amid some archaeologists that soaring prices volition fuel the marketplace for looted antiquities besides every bit legally acquired ones.

The 7-foot bas-relief from the palace of Nimrud inwards present-day Republic of Iraq was acquired inwards the 19th century, long earlier at that topographic point were laws prohibiting the wholesale removal too export of archaeological treasures.
Christie's described it every bit "the finest illustration of Assyrian fine art to accept come upwards onto the marketplace inwards decades."...MUCH MORE
Here's Christie's Lot no. 101.
Although they don't orbit so, I'd ascribe it to the School of  Kunusskunkilasshur.
Or perchance another Assyrian dude

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