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Assyrian Relief of Cavalrymen Crossing a Mountain Stream in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, August 2007


Cavalrymen Crossing a Mountain Stream
Alabaster (gypsum)
Mesopotamia, excavated at Nineveh
Southwest Palace of Sennacherib
Neo-Assyrian period, 704-681 BC
Accession # 32.143.18
Cavalrymen in full battle armor, engaged in a military campaign, have dismounted in order to cross rough terrain adjacent to a stream or river. This slab and a large fragment in the British Museum, London, were part of the same scene.
Text from the Metropolitan Museum of Art label.
Alabaster (gypsum)
Mesopotamia, excavated at Nineveh
Southwest Palace of Sennacherib
Neo-Assyrian period, 704-681 BC
Accession # 32.143.18
Cavalrymen in full battle armor, engaged in a military campaign, have dismounted in order to cross rough terrain adjacent to a stream or river. This slab and a large fragment in the British Museum, London, were part of the same scene.
Text from the Metropolitan Museum of Art label.
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