The movable Assyrian sow (a moveable armored shelter much like a battering ram) making a breach in a wall of a fortress. Sows often had archers within, as here The drawing is by Faucher-Gudin, from one of the bronze bas-reliefs of the gate of Balawat, and accompanied text by French Egyptologist Gaston Maspero. This bronze relief decorated the gate at the palace of the Assyrian ruler Shalmanesar III (c. 859–824 ) at Balawat in present-day northern Iraq.
The movable Assyrian sow (a moveable armored shelter much like a battering ram) making a breach in a wall of a fortress. Sows often had archers within, as here The drawing is by Faucher-Gudin, from one of the bronze bas-reliefs of the gate of Balawat, and accompanied text by French Egyptologist Gaston Maspero. This bronze relief decorated the gate at the palace of the Assyrian ruler Shalmanesar III (c. 859–824 ) at Balawat in present-day northern Iraq.
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