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Fred Parhad (born 1947) is an Assyrian sculptor, most known for his monument of Ashurbanipal which stands in San Francisco in front of the Asian Art Museum. Fred Parhad is a self-taught sculptor, who, at the beginning of his career, focused on ancient Assyrian art.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Fred Parhad )〕 ==The statue of Ashurbanipal== The statue of the Assyrian King, Ashurbanipal, looks onto the San Francisco Public Library. Dressed in a short tunic, if the king's right arm cradles a lion cub, his left hand holds a clay tablet. Bronze plaque and rosettes adorn the concrete base of the statue.. The clay tablet held by the king reads as follows:- "Peace unto heaven and earth Peace unto countries and cities Peace unto the dwellers in all lands" Son of Esarhaddon, Ashurbanipal was the last great king of the Neo-Assyrian Empire (668BC–c-627 BC). He introduced the first systematically organized library in the ancient Middle East, the Library of Ashurbanipal, now at Nineveh, partially though,which survived through the ages.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.artandarchitecture-sf.com/tag/fred-parhad )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Fred Parhad」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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