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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 ...
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. The king's face has been deliberately damaged in antiquity. The relief bears two cuneiform inscription.
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Jan 28, 2022 · Sennacherib’s Siege of Lachish. Study reveals how Assyria conquered the Judahite city. A section of the Assyrian siege ramp as seen on the Lachish relief from Sennacherib’s palace at Nineveh. Perhaps no event recorded in the Hebrew Bible is better supported by archaeology and external evidence than Sennacherib’s siege of Lachish in 701 B ...
The inscription next to him reads ‘Sennacherib, king of the world, king of Assyria, sat on the throne as the plunder of Lachish passed before him’ (Figure 4). It is from this inscription that we know for certain that the relief depicts the siege of Lachish, rather than any other of Sennacherib’s conquests.
Feb 7, 2017 · The South-West Palace (and thus the reliefs) was discovered between 1845-1847 by Austen Henry Layard. The reliefs talk about the military siege and capture of the Judaean city of Lachish. The Assyrians at first reached the area and established a base camp for its army. They then laid a siege around the city for weeks.
The siege of Lachish was the Neo-Assyrian Empire's siege and conquest of the town of Lachish in 701 BCE. The siege is documented in several sources including the Hebrew Bible, Assyrian documents and in the Lachish relief, a well-preserved series of reliefs which once decorated the Assyrian king Sennacherib's palace at Nineveh.
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). The panels decorated an inner room of the palace in its administrative wing. The palace was excavated between 1847 ...
