Cyrus Cylinder

This and the next several ivories come from the approximately twelve thousand ivory pieces and fragments that were found in the royal compound in the city of Samaria, capital of the Northern Kingdom…

This detail appears in a relief from the palace of Sennacherib, king of Assyria (r. 705–681 BCE), in Nineveh depicting the Assyrian conquest of Lachish in 701 BCE. (For the full relief, see "Conquest…

[ . . . . . . . . ] and cut (a treaty) [ [ . . . e]l my father went up [against him when] he was fighting in Abe[l?] And my father lay down, he went to his [ancestors (or: eternal place)]. And the…