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58squares archer [family: 58 squares] period: Middle Iron (950-650) date: ~ 900 B.C		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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