Conquest of Lachish Depicted on Relief of Sennacherib

700–681 BCE

This relief, from Sennacherib’s palace in Nineveh, shows Sennacherib’s army attacking Lachish (an event alluded to in 2 Kings 18:14 and 17). Sennacherib is sitting on his throne outside the city receiving booty and prisoners. The caption on the relief, above the leader of the procession, reads: “Sennacherib, king of the universe, king of Assyria, seated upon an armchair; the spoils of Lachish passed before him.”

Credits

  1. A. H. Layard, from A Second Series of the Monuments of Nineveh (London: J. Murray, 1853), pl. 20. General Research Division, The New York Public Library. "The Siege of the City of Lachish by Sennacherib." New York Public Library Digital Collections. http://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47dc-4735-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99.
  2. A. H. Layard, from A Second Series of the Monuments of Nineveh (London: J. Murray, 1853), pl. 21. General Research Division, The New York Public Library. "The Siege of the City of Lachish by Sennacherib." New York Public Library Digital Collections. http://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47dc-4736-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99.
  3. A. H. Layard, from A Second Series of the Monuments of Nineveh (London: J. Murray, 1853), pl. 22. General Research Division, The New York Public Library. "Captives and Spoil from the City of Lachish." New York Public Library Digital Collections. http://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47dc-4737-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99.
  4. A. H. Layard, from A Second Series of the Monuments of Nineveh (London: J. Murray, 1853), pl. 23. General Research Division, The New York Public Library. "Sennacherib before the City of Lachish." New York Public Library Digital Collections. http://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47dc-4738-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99.

Published in: The Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization, vol. 1.

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