Relief of a Kneeling Soldier

668-627 BCE (Neo-Assyrian)

20 cm 28 cm 2.5 cm

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This relief from King Ashurbanipal's palace at Nineveh shows a Neo-Assyrian soldier kneeling next to a besieged Elamite city wall. Holding his round shield over him for protection, he scrapes at the mud-brick fortification with his dagger in order to weaken the structure. Duri...

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[Nineveh, North Palace, Room F, slab 15, uncovered ca. 1854-56]; Ugo Jandolo, Rome, [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Joseph Brummer, New York and Paris, 1925, by purchase [Brummer inv. no. P2318]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1927, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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