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Babylonian fugitives in a cane thicket
© Institute and Museum of the History of Science

Babylonian fugitives in a cane thicket

Limestone, 704-681 B.C.
Nineveh, South-West Palace of Sennacherib
Rome, Museo Barracco, inv. BAR/50

On this stone slab, a battle scene between Assyrians and Babylonians in Lower Mesopotamia is depicted with striking realism.