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Child Sacrifice in Relief
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Child sacrifice in relief, Pozo Moro, Spain, ca. 500 BCE. The relief shows a two-headed monster receiving offerings in bowls. One bowl holds a child. Because the site shows Phoenician influence, the…

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Pozo Moro, Kingdom of Iberia (Madrid, Spain)

Date:

ca. 500 BCE

Subjects:

Sacrifice, Children, Archaeology, Anthropology
Stone relief of human-like monster in a chair and several animals and figures.
Impaled Corpses at Lachish
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Impaled corpses at Lachish, detail from Assyrian relief in the Nineveh palace of Sennacherib (reigned 705–681 BCE), depicting the conquest of Lachish in 701 BCE. For the full relief see Conquest of…

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Nineveh, Assyria (Mosul, Iraq)

Date:

Iron Age II, 7th Century BCE

Subjects:

Archaeology, War, Violence
Relief of two people impaling three people.