Copy of Victory Stele Inscription

ca. 690 BCE (Neo-Assyrian)

40.6 cm 63.5 cm 10.2 cm

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This stone tablet has the same inscription as a victory monument at an important battlefield, celebrating the defeat of a coalition of Babylonians and Elamites by the Neo-Assyrians. The inscription gives details of the battle and ends with a brief account of building operation...

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Edgar J. Banks, Bagdad [claimed from Nineveh]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1931, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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