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58squares archer [family:
58 squares]
period:
Middle Iron (950-650)
date: ~
900 B.C |
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original location :
Mesopotamy (Ras-el-Ain.)
context:
next to the Tell Halaf |
fabric:
couleur:
brown state:
dimensions:
?
conservation:
?: |
| designs :
Holes like decorations were printed in the raw limestone. |
| disposition of the grid:
On one side, one can see a carrier on which a horseman and an archer stand going after an eneemy escaping and looking back to obtain the mercy from the king. Dated from the brginning of the Neo-Assyrian empire. |
| accessories:
none |
publications:
NouGayrol, A.
1947 Jeux profanes, jeux sacrés
Revue d'Assyriologie 41, fig. 8, Paris |
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