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Depicted in a relief from Sennacherib’s Palace in Nineveh, these musicians, followed by an Assyrian soldier, hold stringed instruments against their chests, plucking the strings as they walk. Dressed…
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Nineveh, Land of Israel
(Mosul, Iraq)
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Early 7th Century BCE
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On this ceramic double pipe from Tel Malhata, the musician uses one hand on each pipe to control pitch. Usually women played the double pipe, but in this case, it is a man. This double pipe is…
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Tel Malḥata, Land of Israel
(Tel Malḥata, Israel)
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Iron Age II, 7th Century BCE
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Nathan Rapoport
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Warsaw, Republic of Poland
(Warsaw, Poland)
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1948
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Elbert Weinberg
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1953
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This detail appears in a relief from the palace of Sennacherib, king of Assyria (r. 705–681 BCE), in Nineveh depicting the Assyrian conquest of Lachish in 701 BCE. (For the full relief, see "Conquest…
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ca. 701 BCE
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This relief from Sennacherib’s palace shows workers rebuilding Nineveh, harnessed by shoulder straps to ropes by which they haul a large bull colossus toward the palace. Workers from various places…
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Early 7th Century BCE
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Shlomo Dreizner
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1968
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669–627 BCE
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Gil Shahar
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2001