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Frankfort H 1954a / The art and architecture of the Ancient Orient (pls. 371, 374) (parts) Barnett 1958a / The Siege of Lachish (pls. 31A, 32A) (details) Barnett 1970 / Assyrian Palace Reliefs in the British Museum (pls. IV-V) Barnett & Lorenzini 1975 / Assyrian Sculptures in the British Museum (pls. 76-7, 80) (details)
- Assyria Lion Hunts
Lachish was one of the chief cities of the kingdom of Judah...
- wall panel; relief
Hall H R 1928a / Babylonian and Assyrian Sculpture in the...
- Assyria Lion Hunts
- Assyria
- Lachish
- Victors and Vanquished
- The Siege of Lachish Reliefs
By 701 BCE the Assyrian kings, based in Nineveh (modern-day Mosul Governorate, Iraq), built their enormous empire. It stretched from modern-day Iran to Egypt and covered most of the modern-day Middle East. The Assyrian Empire was the largest land empire yet created, the product of the prodigious Assyrian war-machine. The Assyrian heartland on the T...
Lachish (modern-day Tell ed-Duweir, Israel), lies about 800 kilometres south-west of the Assyrian heartland, but only 40 kilometres south-west of Jerusalem. It was a critical point, linking Mesopotamia to the Mediterranean and the immense wealth of Egypt. By 701 BCE, Lachish was a heavily fortified city, located on a hill. It was the 2nd city, afte...
“Him” refers to Hezekiah, King of Judah. This is what is written in Book of the Kings, but the Bible understandably glosses over the disagreeable fact that the ruler of the great Assyrian Empire, Sennacherib, the terror of the Middle East, responded aggressively, without showing any mercy. Sennacherib mobilised his massive, professional, well-train...
Sennacherib recorded this victorious military campaign in a series of wall reliefs, which decorated Room XXXVI of his South-West Palace at Nineveh. These reliefs were probably painted, but even without any colours, they are astonishing historical documents, just like a film in stone. The reliefs were about 2.5 meters in height and would have run in...
Lachish was one of the chief cities of the kingdom of Judah in the southern Levant and in 701 BC it was captured by the Assyrian King Sennacherib (704–681 BC). The siege followed the refusal of Lachish to pay tribute to the Assyrian Empire (based in modern northern Iraq) and is mentioned in the Bible.
The Lachish reliefs are a set of Assyrian palace reliefs narrating the story of the Assyrian victory over the kingdom of Judah during the siege of Lachish in 701 BCE. 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, and was included as item 21 in the BBC Radio 4 series A ...
Hall H R 1928a / Babylonian and Assyrian Sculpture in the British Museum (pl. XXXIV) Barnett 1958a / The Siege of Lachish (pl. 31B) Barnett & Foreman 1959 / Assyrian Palace Reliefs and their Influence on the Sculptures of Babylonia and Persia (p. 28, pls. 44-5) Yadin 1963 / The art of warfare in Biblical lands in the light of archaeological ...
Nov 24, 2014 · Neo-Assyrian, 700–692 B.C. The Trustees of the British Museum, London (ME 124906, 124907) Jerusalem lay only 30 miles away. In advance of his forces, Sennacherib dispatched a delegation of high-level military and administrative officials to negotiate terms of surrender and remind Hezekiah that Egypt had been defeated and Judah's god would be ...
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Luke Chandler offers a detailed look at the ancient palace reliefs of the Assyrian king Sennacherib assaulting and enslaving Lachish in Judah.
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