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124911. Description. 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.
- wall panel; relief
Description. Gypsum wall panel relief: showing booty from...
- Assyria Lion Hunts
Lachish was one of the chief cities of the kingdom of Judah...
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- 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 These reliefs were probably painted, but even without any colours, they are astonishing historical documents, just like a film in stone.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...
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 History of the World in 100 Objects by the museum's former director Neil MacGregor.
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Siege of Lachish; Part of Sennacherib's campaign in the Levant: Assyrian siege-engine attacking the city wall of Lachish, part of the ascending assaulting wave. Detail of a wall relief dating back to the reign of Sennacherib, 700-692 BCE. From Nineveh, Iraq, currently housed in the British Museum.
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