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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…

Places:

Nineveh, Assyria (Mosul, Iraq)

Date:

Iron Age II, 7th Century BCE

Subjects:

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