Ancient Worlds - BBC Two Episode 2 “The Age of Iron”The Lachish Relief, a series of ston
Ancient Worlds - BBC Two Episode 2 “The Age of Iron”The Lachish Relief, a series of stone panels which decorated the walls of the Assyrian king Sennacherib’s great palace at Nineveh. The reliefs narrate the story of the siege and capture of the city of Lachish, in Judah, in 701 BC. The Lachish relief shows Sennacherib as an invincible king presiding over a perfect victory. Soldiers storm the town walls while a procession of prisoners are marched out of the town into exile, through the countryside, to be resettled elsewhere in the Assyrian Empire. Below them high officials and foreigners are being tortured and executed. The panel also depicts the looting of the city and the surviving men put to work in stone quarries (pictures n. 4, 5). Such scenes demonstrated the terrible consequences of rebelling against the Assyrian empire. PART IIIThe British Museum, London, UK -- source link
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