Relief depicting Babylonian campaign, woman and child captives riding on mule are escorted by Assyrian soldiers along the edge of a river, fragmentary

Details

  • Title

    Relief depicting Babylonian campaign, woman and child captives riding on mule are escorted by Assyrian soldiers along the edge of a river, fragmentary

  • Associated place

    Nineveh (S.W Palace of King Sennacherib) (place of excavation)
  • Date

    704 BC - 681 BC
  • Material and technique

    mosul marble

  • Object type

  • Dimensions

    71 cm (height)
    113 cm (width)
    6.5 cm (depth)
    165 kg (weight)
  • No. of items

    1

  • Credit line

    Presented by Mr Michael Sadler with the assistance of the National Arts Collections Fund, 1933.

  • Museum location

  • Museum department

    Antiquities

  • Accession no.

    AN1933.1575

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Further reading

Collins, Paul, Mountains and Lowlands Ancient Iran and Mesopotamia (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 2016), p.143, illus. p.143

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