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LACHISH UNDER SIEGE
Made to decorate the walls of King
Sennacherib’s palace in Nineveh (in modern-
day Iraq), this relief shows the Assyrian
siege tower rolling up a ramp to batter the
defensive wall with its ram, while archers
shoot at the defenders.
