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Judahite Captives among the Builders of Sennacherib’s Palace
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This relief from Sennacherib’s palace shows workers rebuilding Nineveh, harnessed by shoulder straps to ropes by which they haul a large bull colossus toward the palace. Workers from various places…

Places:

Nineveh, Assyria (Mosul, Iraq)

Date:

Early 7th Century BCE

Subjects:

Archaeology, Dress, Labor, Sculpture

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Dress & Adornment, Sculpture
Wall relief showing workers wearing tunics, caps, and sashes, harnessed by shoulder straps to ropes and leaning forward.
The Siloam Inscription
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[The matter of] the breakthrough: And this is the matter of the breakthrough. While [the hewers were swinging the] axe, each towards his companion, and while there were still three cubits to he[w…

Places:

Jerusalem, Land of Israel (Jerusalem, Israel)

Date:

End of 8th Century BCE

Subjects:

Archaeology, Labor, Cities, Technology, Writing, Architecture

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Architecture
Piece of wall inscribed with Hebrew.
Brickmaking by Prisoners
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Brickmaking by prisoners. Thebes, Egypt, 15th century BCE. This mural, from the tomb of the vizier Rekh-me-re, shows Semitic (“Asiatic”) and Nubian prisoners of war making mud bricks and repairing a…

Places:

Thebes, Egypt (Luxor, Egypt)

Date:

New Kingdom (Egypt), 15th Century BCE

Subjects:

Archaeology, Passover, Labor, Human rights, Violence, Inscriptions

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Inscriptions
Mural of people carrying bricks, measuring blocks, and pouring buckets.