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Tomb of an Israeli Soldier I was one of a series of works painted by Michail Grobman at a time when any sympathetic gesture toward Israel was, for Soviet Jews, an act of defiance. Grobman’s very style…
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Mikhail Grobman
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Moscow, USSR (Moscow, Russia)
Date:
1963
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Soldier slaying captive, Khorsabad, late eighth century BCE. The captive is probably a Samarian seized during Sargon’s conquest of the city. From a relief in the palace of Sargon at Dur-Sharrukin…
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Dur-Sharrukin, Assyria (Khorsabad, Iraq)
Date:
Late 9th Century BCE
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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…
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Nineveh, Assyria (Mosul, Iraq)
Date:
700–681 BCE