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© THE TRUSTEES OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM; MUSEUM # 124775

ASSYRIAN SLINGERS deployed during Sennacherib’s siege of the fortified Judahite city of Lachish in 701 B.C. The scene is part of an extensive set of gypsum panel reliefs from the Assyrian capital of Nineveh that celebrated Sennacherib’s military victories and exploits. This section of the relief shows slingers whirling their weapons vertically at their sides, propelling their stones toward Judahite defenders stationed atop the walls of the city (shown in an adjacent panel). The reliefs are now on display in the British Museum in London.