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Description: After a long siege, the city of Lachish surrendered and the Assyrian army entered the city. King Sennacherib sits on his royal chair, surrounded by attendants and greets a high-ranking official. The king reviews Judaean prisoners. The cuneiform inscriptions read " Sennacherib, king of the world, king of Assyria sat on a throne and the booty of Lachish passed before him." Wall relief from the South-West Palace at Nineveh (modern-day Ninawa Governorate, Iraq), Mesopotamia. Neo-Assyrian period, 700-692 BCE. The British Museum, London.
Title: The fall of Lachish, King Sennacherib reviews Judaean prisoners.
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