Yoked Captives from the City of Dabigu Under Assyrian Escort

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by Osama Shukir Muhammed Amin
published on 04 March 2019

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Yoked Captives from the City of Dabigu Under Assyrian Escort — This is the lower register (of two registers; the upper one is not shown) which shows yoked captives and their Assyrian escort. Shalmaneser III's military campaign in northern Syria, attack on the city of Dabigu, c. 858 BCE. Detail, bronze band from the Balawat gates. Embossed. Original (not an electrotype copy). From Tell Balawat, in modern-day Nineveh Governorate, Iraq. Reign of Shalmaneser III, 858-854 BCE. (The British Museum, London).
Source of the description of the band: King L. W. (1915) Bronze Reliefs from the Gates of Shalmaneser King of Assyria BC, 860-825. London.

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Osama Shukir Muhammed Amin

Associate Professor of Neurology and lover of the Cradle of Civilization, Mesopotamia. I'm very interested in Mesopotamian history and always try to take photos of archaeological sites and artifacts in museums, both in Iraq and around the world.

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