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Wall relief showing prisoners being strung up on poles, with the pole inserted up through the ribs after the Assyrian king Sennacherib conquered the Israelite city of Lachish in 701 BCE. South West Palace, Nineveh.
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Museum, T. T. o. t. B. (2022, May 12). Lachish relief at Nineveh.
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