Relief of Men Towing a Boat

721 BC - 705 BC
Stone
Khorsabad
43 cm x 119.5 cm x 17 cm
A11258

Oriental Institute Museum

Artifact Description

Relief of Men Towing a Boat

Archaeologists from the Oriental Institute discovered this relief fragment in the debris of the throne room of King Sargon II. The fragment shows naked Assyrian soldiers towing a boat on a river, possibly during one of Sargon's military campaigns against Marduk-apla-iddina II, King of Babylon, whose name is inscribed in the text above the scene.

Collected by

Henri Frankfort, Field Director of the Iraq Expedition
Excavated by The Oriental Institute 1930

Multimedia

The Ancient City of Khorsabad
Dr. Gil Stein, Director of the Oriental Institute, discusses the importance of the ancient capital city of Khorsabad in this video.

Web Links

Highlights from the collection of the Oriental Institute Museum; Relief

Suggested Readings

Parpola, Simo. Letters from Assyria and the West: The Correspondence of Sargon II, Part I. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press, 1987.

Reade, Julian. Assyrian Sculpture. London: The British Museum, 1983.

Roaf, Michael. Cultural Atlas of Mesopotamia and the Ancient Near East. New York: Facts on File, 1990.

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