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Gypsum wall panel relief; carved in low relief; Sennacherib watches the capture of Lachish. He sits on a throne and watches as prisoners are brought before him and executed. A tent is behind him; there is a chariot in the foreground and bodyguards stationed around.
Jan 28, 2022 · This is seen in contemporary depictions of the siege including the famous Lachish relief from Sennacherib’s palace at Nineveh. The smoothed surface allowed the heavy Assyrian battering rams to reach and then breach the city walls.
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Carved between 700 and 681 BCE, as a decoration of the South-West Palace of Sennacherib in Nineveh (in modern Iraq ), the relief is today in the British Museum in London, [1] and was included as item 21 in the BBC Radio 4 series A History of the World in 100 Objects by the museum's former director Neil MacGregor.
The palace walls featured reliefs depicting battle scenes and victories of the Assyrian kings. One set of reliefs portrays the conquest of Lachish, with an inscription that states, “Sennacherib, king of the world, king of Assyria, set up a throne and the booty of Lachish passed before him.”.
- Yehudis Litvak
Feb 12, 2013 · Sennacherib immortalized the conquest of the city of Lachish in huge reliefs that he installed in his palace in the Iraqi city of Nineveh. This animated video brings alive the reliefs uncovered in archaeological excavations and dramatically depicts the Assyrian war machines assaulting the city.
Gypsum wall panel relief, 124905 (figure 1), 124906 (figure 2), 124908 (figure 3) and 124912 (figure 4) © The Trustees of the British Museum (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) The Lachish reliefs are Sennacherib’s perspective of the siege of Lachish. The siege is also recorded in the Bible (2 Chronicles 32, 2 Kings 18).
Lachish Battle Reliefs. These bas-relief panels that show the Assyrian King Sennacherib’s capture of the Judean fortress of Lachish come from the king’s so-called Palace Without Rival at his capital city of Nineveh (currently in northeastern Iraq).
