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Assyrian Relief of Cavalrymen Crossing a Mountain Stream in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, August 2007

Assyrian Relief of Cavalrymen Crossing a Mountain Stream in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, August 2007
Cavalrymen Crossing a Mountain Stream
Alabaster (gypsum)
Mesopotamia, excavated at Nineveh
Southwest Palace of Sennacherib
Neo-Assyrian period, 704-681 BC

Accession # 32.143.18

Cavalrymen in full battle armor, engaged in a military campaign, have dismounted in order to cross rough terrain adjacent to a stream or river. This slab and a large fragment in the British Museum, London, were part of the same scene.

Text from the Metropolitan Museum of Art label.

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