This gypsum wall panel depicts two bare-footed Assyria soldiers marching to the left. The bent tip on their helmets identify them as mercenaries. Neo-Assyrian Period, reign of Sennacherib, 704-680 BCE. From the South-West Palace at Nineveh, Mesopotamia, modern-day Iraq. (Pergamon Museum, Berlin. Germany)
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