The upper register shows Chaldeans from the city of Bit-Dakuri carrying tribute through a palm-plantation while the lower register shows an Assyrian inspector, seated (center), watching the collection of tribute at a bridge of boats (extreme right). Shalmaneser III's military campaign in southern Babylonia, c. 851 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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