Fleeing Phoenician Queen

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Osama Shukir Muhammed Amin
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published on 08 September 2016
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This gypsum fragment shows a Phoenician queen holding a baby, fleeing in a boat from the invading Assyrian army. It was once part of limestone relief at the Throne room I of Sennacherib's palace at Nineveh. From the South-West Palace, Nineveh (modern-day Mosul Governorate, Iraq), Mesopotamia. Circa 700 BCE. (The British Museum, London).

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Osama Shukir Muhammed Amin
Associate Professor of Neurology and lover of the Cradle of Civilization, Mesopotamia. I'm very interested in Mesopotamian history and always try to take photos of archaeological sites and artifacts in museums, both in Iraq and around the world.

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Amin, O. S. M. (2016, September 08). Fleeing Phoenician Queen. World History Encyclopedia. Retrieved from https://www.worldhistory.org/image/5635/fleeing-phoenician-queen/

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