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Nursery Rhymes
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[May] your mornings [be] blessed, [May] your life [be] long, [May] your enemies [be] shrouded, dead, [May] your [hot] breakfasts [be] poured, cooled.

Contributor:

The Jews of Zakho, Kurdistan

Places:

Zakho, Ottoman Empire (Zakho, Iraq)

Date:

17th Century

Subjects:

Children, Education, Parenthood, Food and drink, Leisure

Categories:

Literature, Popular Poetry, Folklore
People from Lachish Going into Exile
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This section of the relief from the palace of Sennacherib, king of Assyria (reigned 705–681 BCE), in Nineveh depicting his conquest of Lachish in 701 BCE, shows Judahite inhabitants filing out of the…

Places:

Nineveh, Assyria (Mosul, Iraq)

Date:

ca. 701 BCE

Subjects:

Archaeology, Dress, Exile, Children

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Dress & Adornment, Sculpture
Wall relief depicting profile view of barefoot captives walking with camels, bulls, and wagons.
A Man from Lachish with His Sons
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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…

Places:

Nineveh, Assyria (Mosul, Iraq)

Date:

ca. 701 BCE

Subjects:

Archaeology, Dress, Exile, Children

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Dress & Adornment, Sculpture
Wall relief of adult male walking with two boys dressed in tunics and caps.