9The Canford Assyrian Relief – $11.3 million
The Canford Assyrian Relief dates circa 883-859 B.C. and holds a world auction record for ‘Near Eastern Antiquity’.
In 1992, this lost Assyrian stone relief was rediscovered on the wall of the Canford school’s tuck shop, called ‘the Grubber’.
How the relief get to that private school?
It is said that it had been brought back by Sir Austen Henry Layard, from the site of Nimrud, in northern Mesopotamia.
In 1994, the Canford Assyrian Relief was sold to the Miho Museum for $11.3 million.
The Jenkins Venus is another stone sculpture that managed to broke a record.
