Relief Slab from a Wall

Image View Description

Detail: Upper Area, Spearmen and Archers

Date

704-681 BCE

Material/Technique
  • limestone
Work Type
sculpture
Style/Period
Neo-Assyrian Period, Sennacherib Period, Ancient Assyrian
Culture
Assyrian, Ancient Near Eastern
Notes

Top: spearmen and archers, center: inscription, bottom: prisoners working on the Palace construction

Image Source

Photography by the Media Center for Art History, Department of Art History & Archaeology, Columbia University

Photographer
Gabriel Rodriguez
Record ID
1718_mmm2017_istanbularchaeologicalmusem_img_051
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