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Line of women in a palm grove
© Institute and Museum of the History of Science

Line of women in a palm grove

Alabaster, middle of 7th cent. B.C.
Nineveh
Rome, Museo Barracco, inv. BAR/48

This relief carving shows five women, probably prisoners, transporting wineskins amid palm trees loaded with dates, with a garden in the background. At the centre, a boy is going towards a young woman.