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Conquest of Lachish Depicted on Relief of Sennacherib
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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…

Places:

Nineveh, Assyria (Mosul, Iraq)

Date:

700–681 BCE

Subjects:

Archaeology, War, Monarchy, Violence, Exile

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Sculpture, Monuments, Gravestones & Tombs
Relief of rows of archers and soldiers with shields and spears.
Jehu on Obelisk of Shalmaneser III
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The panel shown here is part of an obelisk that contains a long inscription summarizing the triumphs of the Assyrian king Shalmaneser III (r. 858–824 BCE) until the thirty-third year of his reign. The…

Places:

Calah, Assyria (Nimrud, Iraq)

Date:

859 BCE–824 BCE

Subjects:

Archaeology, War, Monarchy, Violence

Categories:

Monuments, Gravestones & Tombs, Inscriptions
Relief of five standing figures carrying objects, and another figure prostrate in the middle of figures, surrounded by rectangular border with Akkadian inscription.
Tel Dan Inscription
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[ . . . . . . . . ] 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…

Places:

Dan, Land of Israel (Tel Dan, Israel)

Date:

Late 9th Century BCE

Subjects:

Archaeology, Monarchy, War, Violence

Categories:

Monuments, Gravestones & Tombs, Inscriptions
Stone tablet in two fragments inscribed with Hebrew writing.