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Bas-relief from Palace of Tiglath-Pileser III
Assyria (Iraq)LinkedCulture matchlcp-c1858850a2c1
- Date
- 746–727 BCE
- Medium
- Sandstone or gypseous alabaster
- Culture
- Assyrian
- Department
- Asian Art
- Institution
- Minneapolis Institute of Art
- Object ID
- 1337
From the Minneapolis Institute of Art record
This Assyrian relief of a city under siege comes from the palace of Tiglath-Pileser III at Nimrud. English archaeologist and diplomat Sir Austen Layard unearthed it during a mid-19th-century excavation. Two Assyrian soldiers mounting a ladder at the left attack the fortifications; one spears a man on a turret as an ally of the victim throws down stones. Two other soldiers are falling from the towers of the upper and lower gates on the right. Iraq, Asia
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- Credit line
- The Alfred F. Pillsbury Fund
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